Word: trades
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...what about the latter? What about industrial spies who steal trade secrets? Or the New York politician who used to brag about hearing former Governor Mario Cuomo's daily phone calls? Or the folks who eavesdrop on your baby monitor at midnight...
...Denver, Heath and other businessmen will next month open the Rocky Mountain Manufacturing Academy, a trade-school adjunct of the state's community-college system. Housed in the former Lowry Air Force Base (which once employed hundreds of civilians) near Denver, the $5.5 million facility will make use of cast-off gear like lathes from the old Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant. Typical subjects: welding, robotics and laser technology...
Such maddening shortages are commonplace in this northern Ohio town. Once a Rust Bucket epicenter, the metropolitan area (pop. 770,000) has become a hub for auto-part exports to Canada and Mexico since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994. Norton Manufacturing, a crankcase maker in nearby Fostoria, could hire 30 electricians, machine repairers and tool-and-die workers--if it could find them...
Though the stakes are clear, the law (which was developed in the era of railway barons) is not. After deadlocking, the Federal Trade Commission in 1993 surrendered jurisdiction over Microsoft to the Justice Department. FTC Commissioner Christine Varney, an expert in the field, says it's hard to apply antitrust law in a fluid situation. "My concern is with the law's ability to keep pace with market conditions in fields that change so rapidly," she says. "Once it's clear a practice is anticompetitive, the issue may already be moot...
...were hospitalized after being clubbed by police, and eight others were detained for questioning. The government is coupling the crackdown on the streets with one in the courts, deciding Thursday to pursue arrest warrants for union leaders. Judge Lee Sang-chul ordered seven leaders of the outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions to appear in court by Friday morning, and other district courts issued subpoenas for 13 others, including six Hyundai union leaders in the southern city of Ulsan. In overnight raids Thursday, police raided the empty head offices of the outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions and its three subsidiary groups...