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...What happened was that Jimmy was going to try to get back in office," Allen said. Convicted of jury tampering in 1967, Hoffa had been in the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., with Allen, who was serving a ten-year sentence for bank robbery. Allen claimed that Hoffa had asked him to kill Fitzsimmons because the new Teamsters president would not step aside and let Hoffa regain control of the union after being released from prison. Insisted Allen: "I was supposed to kill Frank Fitzsimmons right here in the Teamsters' parking lot [in Washington...
...night. From the start, an R.I.T. education is geared toward the molding of marketable skills. In fact, students are periodically required to leave school for an academic quarter to fill temporary jobs at nearby companies, including Kodak and IBM. R.I.T.'s energetic placement office generates ten-year forecasts of the number of jobs that will open up in the different branches of engineering. Those studies show that R.I.T. graduates should continue to be in demand, even in a down economy...
...Japanese have introduced the just-in-time approach to inventory control. This system, which was developed over a ten-year period by Toyota Motor Co., requires suppliers to deliver only enough components to build exactly the number of cars scheduled for production during a given day or week. The autos are then quickly shipped out to the market. The just-in-time system has spread throughout Japanese industry. Factories of YKK, the world's largest zipper manufacturer, have no warehouses at all. Goods are moved immediately from the production line to distributors...
...summon up visions of The Grapes of Wrath. Dry-land farming means larger farms with lower yields, fewer workers and probably higher prices in the supermarkets. Cattlemen know that less water means less corn and therefore smaller herds. Grubb calls such farming the "Russian roulette" of agriculture. Over a ten-year period, he says, dry-land farming will yield two strong harvests, four average ones and four "busts...
...Identities Protection Act, which will become law as soon as a conference committee finishes its tinkering and President Reagan affixes his signature. Under one of the bill's provisions, Kennedy, who had been shown CIA documents detailing Nassar's work for the U.S., might have faced a ten-year prison term for revealing the name of a covert agent...