Word: troy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your story on the award of a contract for New York City subway cars [July 26] is somewhat misleading. You refer to the loss of the contract by the Budd Co. of Troy, Mich., to Canada's Bombardier Inc., but neglect to mention that the cars will be assembled in Bombardier's U.S. plant in Barre, Vt. You imply that several hundred jobs will be lost to Budd, but ignore the new jobs that will be created with Bombardier in Vermont, and also those that will be saved at Westinghouse Electric in New York, where motors and other...
Some unforeseen consequences of that decision, however, now threaten to ignite an international brawl. Trouble reached a climax last week when Treasury Secretary Donald Regan refused to grant cheap federal financing to aid the ailing Budd Co. of Troy, Mich., in a bid to build the cars...
...their tableaux came down from Mount Parnassus. Some 4,500 dues-paying ($5 a year) members of the festival organization have the right to buy 16 tickets at up to $20 each. "The pageant is a chance for us to be part of something creative," explains Clem Troy Sr., a Laguna-based engineer, who, with his wife and three children, has taken part in four of them. "I'm no artist myself, but the pageant is part of this country's culture...
...federal appeals court fails to grant a stay, the only other option available to the doctors is to appeal to a single justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Thomas Troy, one of the doctors attorneys, said yesterday he has already begun drafting an appeal to be presented to the justice...
George A. Keyworth II, director of the Federal Office of Science and Technology Policy, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.: "Let's not cast around for villains and come up with the Arabs for raising the price of their oil or the Japanese for stealing our technology. Our lost momentum in the world's marketplaces is largely our own fault. Back when we were basking in the dreams of an economic never-never land, Nos. 2 and 3 and on down the line were gearing up for just what we've always said American society thrived...