Word: trades
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...default rate was 10.7 percent, a 40 percent drop from the year before President Clinton took office. The Administration was swift to take credit, and used the opportunity to press for further education tax breaks. It was the President, after all, who had proposed such tough measures as dropping trade schools with high default rates from national student aid programs, garnishing the wages of delinquent students and withholding their tax refunds. Meeting with six college students in the Oval Office, Clinton pointed out that government student loans helped him get through college and law school. "America needs these tax cuts...
DETROIT: Volkswagen agreed to pay General Motors $100 million as part of a settlement ending a long and bitter lawsuit alleging that Volkswagen stole trade secrets. VW also agreed to buy at least $1 billion worth of parts from GM over seven years. The deal reportedly had been in the works ever since last month, when German prosecutors indicted the central figure in the case, Jose Ignacio Lopez. It closes a dispute that began in March 1993, when Lopez, about to be promoted to General Motors' chief of North American operations, moved overnight to Volkswagen, along with seven other...
...trade is putting out fires," said Fire Department Chief Kevin J. Fitzgerald, one of three commissioners. "But my real trade is keeping them-from starting. Have you ever signed [a form] where you have to list a dead person?" Fitzgerald asked Sullivan...
SEOUL: Knowing how quickly public disgust can wither a strike, protesting unions are sending their charges back to work--for free. As part of a "Day of solidarity with the people" arranged by the outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions, striking auto mechanics provided free tuneups in 12 South Korean cities, and some nurses and hospital workers set up tents offering free blood-pressure checks and services for the elderly. The confederation also promised that thousands of striking workers would hit the streets with brooms in a cleanup campaign, while others would help dig out remote villages snowed...
...giant state-run KBS and three other private TV and radio stations walked out Tuesday. They were joined by some 3,000 nurses and other unionized workers at 24 hospitals who rejoined the protests after ending their first round of walkouts a week ago. The outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions, which is organizing the protests, continues to disagree with the Labor Ministry on walkout totals. The Confederation, which claims a membership of 500,000, said 230,000 workers at 210 companies were taking part in the protest Tuesday and predicted the number would increase. But the Labor Ministry said only...