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Financial analysts hailed the move, and even union officials were at least somewhat understanding. Nonetheless, the announcement from General Motors last week sent a powerful shudder of concern through the Midwestern Rustbelt. GM Chairman Roger Smith said that starting next year the giant automaker will begin the largest pruning operation in its 78-year history. As the first stage in that cutback, GM will shut down ten of its plants and partly close another, in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Ohio, dismissing no fewer than 29,000 workers over a three-year period. GM billed the action as part...
...chief strategist and unofficial spokesman of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for more than two decades, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani could seemingly drive oil prices -- and the global economy -- up or down at will. A few words from the unfailingly suave sheik could make government officials shudder and cause stock markets from New York City to New Delhi to fall. With gallows humor, wags depicted OPEC at the height of its power as a highwayman who seizes his victim by the throat and cries, "Yamani or your life...
...reckless investment for Kodak. The previous attraction in the company's Magic Eye Theater, a 3-D film called Magic Journeys, was seen by 19 million people in less than four years. Asked how long EO will run, a Disney spokesman replies, "EOns." Walt Disney and George Eastman might shudder at the expense (not to mention that atrocious pun), but they would appreciate their successors' canny blending of commerce and entertainment...
Supreme as Boeing's reputation is, it is also fragile. On those very rare occasions when a Boeing jet crashes, a shudder not only of sympathy but of concern goes through Seattle. When a Japan Air Lines 747 went down last year, killing 520, the company sent a twelve-member team of investigators to the scene. Boeing later admitted that repair work it had once done on the plane's tail area had been faulty...
Occasionally, while the elder Guinness is turning the TV dial, searching for the news or a nature program, he comes across one of his many selves. "I switch it off within 30 seconds," he says with a slight shudder. "Once I've done something, it doesn't really have any interest for me anymore." He likes movies, but he loves the stage and is even now on the lookout for a good play. At the moment Alan Bennett (The Old Country) is his favorite English playwright; David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), his favorite American. Between roles, Sir Alec...