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...When Chrysler teetered on the edge of bankruptcy in 1979 and 1980, unions made concessions worth approximately $1 billion. But last year the company earned $2.4 billion, and workers want some of the benefits of the good times. Says Charles Ryan, 59, a janitor at Detroit's Jefferson Avenue plant who joined the company in 1951: "The workers never got credit for saving Chrysler." Echoes William Bon, president of U.A.W. Local 122 in Cleveland: "We have made a great sacrifice to keep Chrysler afloat, and we don't want to get thrown out of the lifeboat." The company's semiskilled...
...Soviet Union. At the port of Milwaukee, ( 20,000 tons of food destined for famine victims in Africa and India last week sat piled up on the docks. Supplies headed for Midwestern factories were also laid up. Three ships carrying gigantic stamping presses for a General Motors plant in Ohio sat on the Ontario side, unable to proceed to Cleveland for unloading...
Trying a different strategy, Coors is taking on two foreign brewers as partners. Last week Masters Beer, which is jointly produced by Coors, Canada's Molson Breweries and West Germany's Kaltenberg, went on sale. Coors brews Masters at its Golden, Colo., plant using a recipe formulated by the three partners. Initially, the beer will be available only in Boston, Miami, Washington and Columbus. Priced 25 cents higher per six-pack than American superpremium beers like Michelob, Masters is likely to be a brew for an upscale restaurant rather than a neighborhood tavern...
Frontier life proves a stern test for believers and infidels alike. The only serene person in the tiny settlement is John Chapman, who is a disciple of the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg and labors under an angel's commandment to plant apple trees. He will later enter American legend under the name Johnny Appleseed, but for now he serves as a useful emissary between the whites and the nearby encampment of Delaware Indians. The local chief has made a treaty of peace, but he may not be able to restrain his warriors. It is 1812, the British are massing...
Supporters of testing in general argue that it is justified by pressing requirements of public health and safety. In August the Tennessee Valley Authority began using urinalysis to check all new nuclear-plant employees for drug use because, says Joe Gross, chief of employment, "we're very concerned about nuclear-plant safety, and this is one aspect of it--having a work force free of alcohol or drug abuse." Southern Pacific Railway claims that since it began drug and alcohol screening last year, on-the-job accidents and injuries attributed to human error have dropped by nearly...