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...give bonuses to undeserving workers and singled out "managerial links" for their role in creating bottlenecks in the production and distribution of goods. Anyone who does not live up to his contractual obligations, the Soviet leader warned, "must answer to the extent of his guilt." Andropov cited one tractor-manufacturing plant in the Ukraine that revamped its operations according to the "rules of the scientific organization of labor" and found it could dispense with 600 jobs. He called for more such modernization efforts...
...industries were among the big winners. The star performer on the N.Y.S.E. was APL, a once struggling paper-products manufacturer whose fortunes have improved under the direction of Financier Victor Posner. Hesston, a Kansas-based farm-equipment company that makes hay balers and backhoes, harvested healthy earnings from improved tractor sales. Rymer, a little-known company in suburban Chicago, went through a metamorphosis in 1983, going from the furniture business to the food trade. The company's long-neglected stock tripled...
...Texas, 17,000 passengers were stranded at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport after three planes skidded off the icy runway. Police reported more than 100 jackknifed tractor trailers, and by midweek the city of Dallas, where the temperature dropped to 11°, had come to a virtual standstill as government offices and businesses stayed closed. "I'm a native Texan, and this weather has just bamboozled me," said Welder Bobby Labar...
...entered the cockpit. At 7:52 a.m. he was roaring down the runway, his plane lurching on the soft spots of the wet ground. Out of the safety zone, he hit a bump, bounced into the air, quickly returned to earth. Disaster seemed imminent; a tractor and a gully were-ahead. Then his plane took the air, cleared the tractor, the gully; cleared some telephone wires. Five hundred onlookers believed they had witnessed a miracle. It was a miracle of skill...
...group was charging from above, when the tall vegetation gave way as though an out-of-control tractor were headed directly...