Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couples to afford a home or reliable child care, even on two paychecks. And he is getting a friendly response from many people in the Central Valley who, like the middle class all over the country, are feeling squeezed. Michael Archer, 42, drives a scrap truck for a rendering plant, while his wife Janie works as a waitress in a coffee shop. Their three children, two boys and a girl in their 20s, are all married with children and all working at dead-end jobs: grocery clerk, bartender, waitress. "You can't raise a family on what they make," says...
...committee: "We've discovered a formula where normally fierce industry competitors can work together with the Government. Fear ((of foreign rivals)) can be a very persuasive motivator." Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis apparently thinks the idea could serve older industries as well. On a tour of a specialty-steel plant in Pittsburgh last week, he promised that as President he would create a national steel-technology research center...
Some tinkering with tax policy could encourage more long-term research and development. The elimination of the investment credit in the 1986 tax reform discouraged many large manufacturers from investing in new plant and equipment. Capital spending in the U.S. stagnated in both 1986 and '87, though the Commerce Department expects it to increase nearly 11% this year...
...Lenin shipyard. After a nine-day sit-in, the workers accepted a demoralizing surrender. This time, though, the core of worker protest lay with the nation's 450,000 coal miners in Silesia. They are the prime motor of Poland's tottering economy, firing its aging industrial plant and providing $1 billion in precious hard-currency exports...
...business. This is not the party of Big Business that it has been in the past. A lot of younger Republicans like me are not terribly comfortable with Big Business. I'm talking about Big Business that doesn't want competition. Big Business did not care about the plant-closing bill. It already gives 60 days' notice. The ones who are going to be hit by that legislation are the smaller firms. Big Business would love Government-mandated benefits because they don't want some guy to come in there and compete with them and not give as much health...