Word: unite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting was convened to examine McCombe's public statements alleging on-the-job harassment in the unit. Twenty-five guards had signed a petition expressing dissatisfaction with McCombe, but less than 10 guards at the meeting were signees to the petition, and three of them asked that their names be removed from...
...McCombe has emerged at the center of the dispute over the guards' charges. While some depict him a self-promoter who causes division in the unit, others say he is the only union steward whom they trust to represent them in grievance proceedings when they are disciplined
...powerful rocket in the world, could reduce the number of launches and greatly decrease the risk. The Russians are already fabricating parts for their next space station, Mir-2. The new station could be used as a model for Freedom, or the two could be combined into one large unit...
When Ira Magaziner was still only a multimillionaire management consultant, General Electric asked him to figure out how to wring a profit from its giant TV-manufacturing unit. Many a hired gun might have sized up the problem by looking at production flow charts or pricing tables. Not Magaziner. He hit the shop floor and began taking apart TV sets with his bare hands, assessing the cost of the components, piece by piece. His conclusion: GE's profit margins could be found not in producing the set's electronic components but in building its plastic-and-wood casing and picture...
...American scientists think they have a way to put Russia's plutonium to good use, by jointly building a $1.5 billion reactor to produce electricity. The device would be partly fueled from Moscow's huge stockpile of scrapped nuclear warheads. But some officers at a Moscow air-defense unit came up with their own way to enhance disarmament: they were stealing gold and platinum from the circuit boards of missiles and selling it. A captain and two junior sergeants netted $28,000 worth of precious metals before being arrested...