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Many at Yale were surprised by the results of an April 30 election where graduate students voted down a proposal to adopt the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) as their collective bargaining unit. Certainly GESO’s leadership had every reason to be surprised. They’ve spent over a million dollars and have been working for more than 11 years to unionize graduate students at Yale...
...least four kidnappers dead. Military officials said that the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) were responsible for the kidnappings. Germany's intelligence service says the group has never targeted civilians, and one of the hostages said the kidnappers wanted money. Members of Germany's élite counterterrorism unit continue to work with Algerian authorities seeking release of the remaining 15 hostages. NO RELEASE RWANDA Nearly 800 former inmates suspected of genocide have been rearrested after being released in January due to overcrowding in the country's prisons. The Justice Ministry said that there are new charges against...
Chrysler, Ford and GM take an average of eight more hours to make a vehicle at their North American plants than do Honda, Nissan and Toyota. Nissan is fastest at 18 hours a vehicle, and Chrysler (the U.S.-based unit of DaimlerChrysler) is slowest at 31 hours, according to the Harbour Report, an annual productivity guide. These times translate into an extra expense of $300 to $500 a vehicle for the Big Three as compared with the transplants, which in a tough market can kill already slim profit potential...
...company's new plan emphasizes its "many opportunities for synergies," and Tellier is already primed for some serious nipping and tucking. The day after the company halved its earnings guidance in March, Tellier announced he would ax 10% of the work force in the aircraft unit, on the heels of deep job cuts last year. A decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization heralded Brazil's new push to be a global economic player. To exploit the late-'90s boom in worldwide regional...
...officials wrapping up their investigation into the plot, only began with the March 12 assassination. After the hit, the conspirators decided they would lie low while the government teetered. Then they would strike again--first at a Foreign Minister, then at two Djindjic aides. As panic spread, a special unit of the state security forces known as the Red Berets--some of whose commanders carried out the assassination--would step forward as guardian of the peace. The government would be forced to step down, and allies of Milosevic's bloody regime would volunteer to fill the vacuum. Serbia would return...