Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Flint, GM is trying to boost profit margins by outsourcing, a source of contention. But the company needs to make great leaps, not incremental steps. Analyst Stephen J. Girsky of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter estimates that to get into fighting shape, GM would have to close three assembly plants, eliminating as many as 34,500 blue-collar jobs. Try negotiating that. And the company needs to close about 2,300 dealerships...
...distressed that there are 13-to-20-year-old girls who believe feminism is about getting your thighs in shape or having sequins on your bra. The real issues are unchanged: equality in the workplace, control over one's body and equal pay. Real feminists need to focus on these problems and dictate change. BECKY FOSTER Wichita, Kans...
...other hand, I'm very, very concerned about the apparent results of this exam. I'd like to think that our colleges are preparing our teachers well, believing as I do that teachers (not politicians) are the ones who will shape the future. I know that the public school system needs reform, and I'm in favor of strong state certification requirements to contribute to that reform. So I wince when I hear the percentage of students who failed and wince again when I think about how much we as a state and a nation have to do to remedy...
...view of how mountains were built and seabeds stretched and rifted, and how continents oozed out of place and out of shape, was itself shifting, upthrusting, subducting. Plate tectonics, the giddy new geology, said that continents floated on some 20 crustal plates, 60 miles thick, kept in motion by ... yeah, well, we'll figure that out later. But in the 1960s and '70s more geologists than not had signed on to the theory. Most agreed, for instance, that India had rammed into Tibet at high speed (and is still ramming), heaving up former ocean floor to create the Himalayas...
...falls to another turnaround pro, Jerry Levin, 54, to pick up the pieces, and few expect fast answers. "The business is in lousy shape," says Andrew Shore, an analyst at Paine Webber. Shore, a Dunlap critic who recently baited Chainsaw Al by publicly asking him to work for $1 a year until the stock recovered, pegs any turnaround at two years...