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...their jobs, and Firestone's Japanese parent, Bridgestone, shifted supervisors around and instituted a 12-hr. workday. It was around this time, according to the depositions given by former employees at the plant, that quality was sacrificed for quantity. Inspections, they charged, lasted as little as 10 sec.; solvent was rubbed on outdated and dried-out rubber to make it sticky. Firestone insists that quality control at all its plants is rigorous. Union officials, worried about their members being made scapegoats for a design defect, have defended their work and forged an unusual alliance with management on this point...
...their jobs, and Firestone's Japanese parent, Bridgestone, shifted supervisors around and instituted a 12-hr. workday. It was around this time, according to the depositions given by former employees at the plant, that quality was sacrificed for quantity. Inspections, they charged, lasted as little as 10 seconds; solvent was rubbed on outdated and dried-out rubber to make it sticky. Firestone insists that quality control at all its plants is rigorous. Union officials, worried about their members being made scapegoats for a design defect, have defended their work and forged an unusual alliance with management on this point...
GORE 70 --To support Israel --To open up to the Cuban people --To support DNA testing in trials --To allow partial-birth abortions only to save the mother's life --To not attack Bush personally --To make Social Security solvent until 2054 --To cut the crime rate for the next 10 years --To wipe out all special-interest money --To have universal health coverage for children by 2004 --To keep the military the best in the world --To end child labor and protect workers --To not raise the retirement...
...Chapter 7 bankruptcy filers in 1997-98 by the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees, which monitors the bankruptcy system, concluded that "by the time they filed, they had little if any capacity to repay. In fact, most will have to increase income or reduce expenses to remain solvent after bankruptcy...
...dwindled to about 100,000 daily. Fang has said that as owner he would break the paper away from the Chronicle and convert it to a competing daily. Hearst has offered to subsidize the venture to the tune of $66 million over three years to make the paper solvent. Reilly, however, argued that the Chronicle has such a tight grip on the Bay Area media market that it would take an investment closer to a quarter-billion dollars to keep its competitor in business...