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...prolonged pay squeeze? By the early '80s, American wages in many sectors were ripe for attack because they remained too high in relation to industrial paychecks in the rest of the world. The porous U.S. economy made such an imbalance impossible to maintain as domestic goods suffered from an invasion of bargain-priced products from countries with lower wage scales: textiles and steel are prime examples. High unemployment during the recession of 1981-82 gave companies more leverage to seek wage concessions or at least hold the line. The newest challenge to wages has been the economy's takeover frenzy...
There is a measure of irony in the robot industry's plight. Although industrial robots account for only 2% of the $24 billion factory-automation business (such items as computers and other electronically controlled industrial machinery make up much of the rest), the mechanical menials have drastically altered many sectors of the American workplace. Robots perform more than 98% of the spot welding on Ford's highly successful Taurus and Sable cars. At Doehler-Jarvis, a major Ohio metal fabricator, robots load and unload die-casting machines, trim parts and ladle molten metal. At IBM factories across the country, robots...
...concern was to avoid an all-out war over confirmation. Though the combined list the men prepared for the President contained a dozen names, at a Monday-afternoon meeting with Reagan, Baker spoke for himself and Meese when he told the President, "Bork is a cut above all the rest...
...thoroughly. Current books are discussed along with older, often obscure works. "The show is intended to make people read," Pivot explains, "to trap the viewer by letting him know a little of what is in a book and then making him go out and buy it to learn the rest...
...plaintiffs so often persist, and why do juries find for them in cases that judges then throw out? Perhaps because jurors, like much of the rest of the public, think the press needs some restraining. Or perhaps because libel law is simply hard for laymen to grasp. While the target of a tough story may feel that he is the beleaguered party, in libel law he becomes the plaintiff and takes on the legal burden of disproving the offending story. In the conflict of rights between freedom of the press and preservation of reputation, the legal scales are deliberately tipped...