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...were auctioned off to raise cash. Five years ago, Chrysler had 157,000 employees; today there are 74,700. In the past three years its costs for wages and salaries have been slashed from $2.1 billion to $1.5 billion. Once the world's sixth largest automaker, Chrysler now ranks twelfth...
...Army account is the second largest at NW Ayer, the nation's twelfth largest ad agency. This month Ayer aims to reach 14 million people between 18 and 24, nearly everyone in that age grouping in the U.S. In fact, it aims at reaching them all at least 14 times, with TV, radio, newspaper and magazine...
Even with the extra year, tuition and fees for the School of Dental Medicine are only the twelfth most expensive in the country at $50.286. The national average is $29.453, but most dental schools offer three-or four-year curricula...
Criticism of her fiction stepped up after 1972, when Sagan reportedly began battling spells of illness, and her novels grew skimpier and more vulnerable to attack. In 1981 she was devastated when a French court banned her twelfth novel, a 178-page crime story called Le Chien Couchant (The Setter), on the ground that it was an "illicit reproduction" of a short story by another writer. The ban was later reversed on appeal...
...last July. Reagan invoked a 60-day cooling-off period and appointed a panel to make recommendations. In August the board suggested that the two holdout unions accept the 28.8% wage hike over 39 months already agreed to by the other unions, along with a no-strike pledge. The twelfth union holdout relented, but the engineers continued to balk at the lack of a guaranteed wage differential. When the cooling-off period ended on Sept. 19, the engineers walked...