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...other panelists spoke about the vicious cycle of violence which haunts the families of abused women...
Without exception, a corporate cultural revolution of this scale is not won without a vicious fight, and GM is still chock full of gearheads who are torqued off at Smith for abandoning them to folks who wouldn't know which end of a wrench to hold. And GM's bureaucracy, as thick as any company's, can still downshift a project to neutral at the drop of a meeting. One high-level executive says the parade of meetings leaves him only 30 hours a month to work on new products and sales. "Things are 100% better than they were...
DETROIT: In an industry notorious for its vicious labor disputes, the Chrysler Corporation has long enjoyed a reputation of having the best labor relations record: just one strike in more than 20 years. That changed Thursday when some 1,800 workers at the Mound Road engine plant walked out over the company's plan to outsource production of driveshafts, which would eliminate about 300 jobs from their plant. Despite a great year for the company and employees as a whole --the highest per-employee profit sharing margin in the industry -- workers knew their position was precarious after their plant...
...growing community of Latino students is increasingly isolated in inferior schools," the authors wrote, "there could be a vicious cycle of declining opportunity...
...each man dealing with a dangerous professional problem. In Tom's case it is a hot-headed, trigger-happy yet likable partner (well played by Ruben Blades) who tests his loyalty and affection. In Frankie's, it is an arms dealer (Treat Williams, slithering from smooth menace to surprisingly vicious sadism) who tests his nerve--and to a degree his commitment to his cause. Frankie can't help contrasting the dank underworld he is obliged to work in with the cozy warmth of the O'Mearas' house...