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Some 2,300 middle managers have "volunteered" to take a 5% pay cut. Last month the company even traded five tons of old documents to recyclers for 330 rolls of toilet paper. Nissan refuses to reveal the goal of its drive, but Tokyo's English-language Asahi Evening News reports the company aims to save $1.3 billion annually...
...flooded toilet in Greenough Hall created an electrical fire hazard, forcing students to evacuate the dormitory yesterday for more than two hours...
...third-floor north-end room, located directly below the flooded bathroom on the fourth floor, suffered the most damage from the overflowing toilet...
...family discovers the problem, it's often the impetus for institutionalization." Victims devise homemade solutions instead -- menstrual pads, rags and tissues in underwear or rubber balloons over the penis. The stigma for all is intense. From early childhood a sense of self-control is deeply connected to successful toilet training, notes Psychologist Ronald Rozensky of Illinois' Evanston Hospital. "Losing that control as adults sets up a downward spiral of helplessness, shame, guilt and withdrawal...
...Gorbachev-appointed party boss for Moscow, surprised a meeting of propagandists with a blistering denunciation of the past administration of the city. Yeltsin described Moscow's well-known but seldom mentioned urban woes in painful detail. A million Muscovites still live in communal apartments where they share cooking and toilet facilities with other families, Yeltsin pointed out, while in the past decade the city has slipped from second place in the Soviet Union to 58th in new-housing construction. Drunkenness, he continued, has not diminished as a problem but has simply been driven indoors by Gorbachev's antidrinking campaign, while...