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Several times throughout the night, a handful of youths in the Common picked up rocks and tried to prod the crowd toward the Square. "Come on, I need a shirt," one shouted. But the crowd stayed...
Invasion from Outside. The Maoists' guerrilla warfare could hardly have come at a worse time for Fiat. So far this year, work stoppages have cost the company more than 2.25 million man-hours. Of those, 1.5 million hours were lost in walkouts called by unions to prod the government, not Fiat, into improving housing and transportation and reducing taxes and inflation. Another 250,000 hours were wasted in unofficial strikes led by the Maoists. Result: Fiat has had to scale down this year's production target from 1.8 million vehicles to 1.55 million, and it has a backlog...
...committee, partially made up of outsiders, to oversee the company's efforts in safety and pollution control. Noting that the Nader lawyers had already won "an enormous psychological and publicity victory," the Detroit Free-Press editorialized: "The idea that a corporation needs some free-standing souls around to prod it in the public interest is not as apocalyptic as it sounds...
...York City, but it does not explain why houses are abandoned in other cities that have no controls. The reasons are complex. Many landlords took their profits years ago without maintaining their buildings, and the massive repairs needed now are beyond their means. As tenants become more militant and prod city authorities into stricter enforcement of housing codes, landlords see their profits dwindling and their properties tied up in red tape. Says former Slumlord Murray Talenfeld, who now lectures on real estate at the University of Pittsburgh: "Pretty soon the slumlord has the feeling he is controlled like a public...
...says Andreski, "weapons were the most advanced gadgets which any civilization has possessed." More important, states swollen by conquest can support a leisure class without which, the author maintains, science and the arts might never have arisen. He points out that technological progress makes its greatest strides under the prod of war, from the stirrup designed by 2nd century Asian warrior horsemen to the sophisticated creations of the last two world wars. From the 1916 tank evolved the bulldozing tractor. World War II was a veritable cornucopia: the first aerosol bomb, radar, the jet aircraft engine, and the ballistic missiles...