Word: upset
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...continued as the United Auto Workers went on strike today at a key plant which manufactures transmission for most GM vehicles made in North America. The walkout, the sixth this year, involves 2,800 member of UAW Local 909 from the automaker's Warren, Michigan facility. The workers are upset at company plans to transfer wheel-making operations from the Warren plant and replace them with work from the Buick City plant in Flint, which the automaker may shut down within months. Although talks are expected to resume today, GM officials fear that the strike could force its North American...
...ceremonies, President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Defense Secretary William Cohen will board their Air Force planes and bustle across Europe to congratulate the fortunate three and soothe and reassure the anxious applicants that have been left out. Some of those, especially the Romanians, are extremely upset, though they say they will be glad to greet the President and hear his better-luck-next-time message...
...bank wouldn't give an answer," Hadded said. "They said, 'We're not going to guarantee any tenancy.' I'm really upset--physically andmentally shook up by this--because The Tasty has been there for some 80 years...
While there, Walsh led his team to upset top-seeded and fourth-ranked UCLA. After defeating fourth-seeded Stetson in the second rond, the Crimson's run ended with losses to Oklahoma State and a rematch with UCLA in the double-elimination tournament...
...depths to which Tyson sank were in direct contrast to the high hopes for this fight. When Holyfield, then a 7-to-1 underdog, upset Tyson last November, he revitalized heavyweight boxing and guaranteed himself and Tyson a huge payday for the rematch--$35 million for the champ, $30 million for the challenger--not to mention a stiff pay-per-view price of $49.95 for home viewers. Promoter Don King called it "the biggest event of all time," and while it may not have been that, it was a classic rematch between the good Holyfield, who wore the biblical inscription...