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Companies scramble to safeguard their electronic brains...
Labor unions have already begun making substantial concessions in an attempt to safeguard jobs. Chrysler workers in the past two years have accepted benefit cuts and deferred pay increases amounting to $1.1 billion. Employees of Braniff Airways last March took a 10% pay cut, and pilots have agreed to fly ten extra hours a month, five of them without pay. Nine union locals at Uniroyal rubber plants have accepted a new contract that calls for sacrifices of $54.9 million over three years. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union that represents meat packers has agreed to defer some cost...
...strike against a 'high-ranking NATO-U.S. target." On Sept. 15 a West German terrorist unit near Heidelberg ambushed an automobile carrying General Frederick Kroesen commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Kroesen escaped with only minor injuries, but U.S. generals in Europe were advised to safeguard themselves. Little was done. Dozier went on living in his top-floor apartment in downtown Verona-the city of blood feuds and doomed love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet-in a building without a doorman or even a resident superintendent...
...whistle. Scientists also like to point out that science was long protected from fraud by a built-in safety mechanism: to be generally accepted, experiments must be repeatable by others. Indeed it was just such a failure that led to Spector's downfall. But in contemporary practice, the safeguard often does not work. So much is being done in every field that unless an experiment is really important, years may pass before anyone tries to repeat it. Especially at a time when new ideas are at a premium, there is not much profit in doing over someone else...
Vogel cited the worldwide development of fundamentalism and the populatrity of religious leaders like the Pope as signs of a global search for reassurance. These signs should remind world powers that their primary task is to "safeguard and preserve peace," he added...