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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demand and cutting production plans for the rest of the year. Output at General Motors assembly plants in the third quarter will be the lowest of any July-September period in 19 years, Chrysler's the smallest in a decade. While none of the automakers are scheduling long-term shutdowns, many workers are being idled for the first time since the last recession. Ford, which has run continuous overtime for the past five years, announced layoffs at Escort plants in Edison, N.J., and Wayne, Mich., and will temporarily close Taurus and Sable assembly plants in Chicago and Atlanta...
...military service of some kind." A 53-week program in the Texas Air National Guard qualified him in F-102 interceptors. Lieut. Bush signed up for a program that rotated Guard pilots to Viet Nam, but he wasn't called. Instead he held short-term jobs, including a stint at Pull for Youth, a Houston program serving ghetto youngsters. "I wasn't interested in taking root," he says. "I was having fun." Once, with Marvin as company, he decided to take a few of the Pull for Youth kids on a plane ride. One of them became abusive and refused...
...task very pleasant indeed. A study by Government Executive magazine, a journal serving public officials, found that of Bush's first 37 ambassadorial nominations, 70% have been political appointees rather than career Foreign Service officers. That compares with 59% for Ronald Reagan at the same point in his first term and 42% for Jimmy Carter...
...Japan is increasingly forced to look outward, the short-term impact of this year's elections will be minimal. The upper house is weak under the Japanese system, and all of the day-to-day decision-making power in Japan rests with the bureaucracy, not elected officials...
...turning points of the recent campaign and the specific policies of the Socialists are not likely to have a long-term effect on Japan's development. The real watershed is the birth of truly partisan politics in a previously apolitical Japan...