Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most successful Supported Work project is the $4.3 million Maverick Corp., which runs a tire-recapping operation in Hartford, Conn. Maverick employs 350 ghetto dwellers, including 100 people age 17 to 20. Typically, a worker is offered $2.50 an hour, and told that whoever shows up punctually will get $2.67 instead. Anyone who is so much as one minute late loses the bonus for the entire week.'" Morale is high, and last year 85 workers moved on to private jobs. Says Maverick President Dan MacKinnon: "Of that group, 25% have lost their jobs. That doesn't make me feel very...
...French officials are actively encouraging firms to move abroad. Says Premier Raymond Barre: "You can't take on the Germans and the Americans, let alone the Japanese, unless you have a well-diversified international industry, which implies foreign direct investment on an ever increasing scale." Michelin, the big tire firm, is leading the way with plans to spend upward of $400 million to produce its radial tires in four American plants...
...billion, and some 40% of this investment is located in Spartanburg. Hoechst, Germany's chemical giant, operates a $300 million fiber plant there; Switzerland's Sulzer makes textile machinery, as does Italy's Pignone, and within a year Michelin will open a $100 million truck tire factory near the Milliken research center. All told, companies from eight countries have plants in the area, employing 4,500 local citizens. Richard Tukey, head of the local Chamber of Commerce, has just returned from a trip to Holland, Italy, Belgium and Germany, where he sweet-talked manufacturers of chemicals, plastics...
...Birmingham, and finally to drive to Memphis and check into a sleazy rooming house facing the Lorraine Motel, where King was staying. Ray insisted later to his lawyers that he was not even in the room overlooking the motel when King was shot. He was fixing the spare tire on his car. Ray contended that Raoul must have done the shooting...
...resisted the anti-tire forces on a hunch: "I figured anything worth 10 a pound in 1941 sooner or later would be worth 100 a pound." Heidelberger was wrong. Much to his own-and his neighbors'-surprise, the tires have turned out to be worth much more. An Oklahoma salvage entrepreneur plans to erect a huge shredder at Heidelberger's place; he aims to process the tires to extract oil, added as a rubber-softening agent during manufacture, and steel belting, and to make an oatmeal-like material that can be mixed with hard coal to provide smooth...