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...this Friday there is no work. Around noon Thursday, a navy blue Dodge Aspen, No. 142 274, went by on its way down the jerky, rumbling assembly line as Dodge Main's last car. As it passed, small groups of instrument fitters, engine installers and wheel mounters cleaned up quietly and left. When the line finally came to a halt, nothing dramatic followed, no mass exodus, not even a final silence. Plant officials gathered around the blue Aspen for photographs, then drifted to the windows overlooking the Bismarck Gate to watch television crews clustered around departing workers, striving...
...loose into the bleak Michigan winter, Wanda is not too hard-pressed financially. Under a company/union agreement, workers with the greatest seniority will have first dibs on jobs elsewhere. (Many may go to the Jefferson Avenue assembly plant, a nearby facility that will produce Chrysler's new front-wheel-drive small cars for next fall.) Wanda has worked at Dodge Main for nearly all of the past 31 years, and soon will qualify for a lifetime monthly pension of $770. In the meantime, she and all of her co-workers are guaranteed either unemployment benefits that...
...Democratic politicians of the postwar era." The agency gave the assignment to Ed Steffe, 72, a character actor and self-described Wendell Willkie Republican from Manhattan. In the commercial, which was previewed in Washington last week, Steffe, wearing a white wig and identified as a Congressman, sits behind the wheel of a long, black Lincoln Continental with registration plates marked DEMOCRAT. As the car sputters to a stop, an announcer declares: "The Democrats are out of gas. We need some new ideas. Vote Republican-for a change." No one is laughing harder than Steffe's jowly, white-maned, thoroughly...
Different modes of instruction are often used for teaching different topics. "Where knowledge is systematic, you might as well let them have it directly," Renato Tagiuri, professor of Organizational Behavior, says. "Don't waste time discussing, getting them to re-invent the wheel." Interactive, student-centered teaching, Tagiuri feels, is most useful in areas where knowledge is more open to debate...
...Soviet army denotes its armored infantry columns, rolled south across the border at Torghondi. It reinforced five other divisions already rooted around every major city in sprawling tent camps that are ringed by 130-mm artillery emplacements. The troops were arrayed around the country in a kind of wheel formation. At its center was an elite airborne division with a main base just outside Kabul, and two mobile units, one stationed due east at Jalalabad and one due west at Shindand. One of the four armored divisions, equipped with heavy T-72 tanks and BMP and BMD armored personnel carriers...