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...around the world) is the $60 million Richard Meier--esque white marble factory designed by Diego's wife Barbara and filled with art by Jacob Hashimoto, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and Frank Stella. One wing is dominated by a Ron Arad silver staircase called The Wave. Inside, 2,500 workers???50% of whom are second-generation employees?turn out an average of 15,000 shoes a day. Their kids go to nursery school on the premises, and the workers eat freshly cooked meals in the cafeteria...
...spotted the FBI men, now as familiar as neighbors after months of work in the area. The crowd knew perfectly well that at last the long-awaited event had occurred: Neshoba County's two top law officers had been charged with complicity in the murder of three civil rights workers???Michael Schwerner, 24, James Chaney, 21, and Andrew Goodman...
...whole absurd structure was bound to collapse, and it did. When the OPEC nations raised the price of oil in 1973-74 and caused a worldwide recession, Poland's exports, instead of continuing to rise as Gierek planned, began to falter. Unable to lay off any workers???a taboo under the full-employment doctrine of Communism?Gierek had to borrow more and more money from the West to keep going. Poland's foreign debt rose from $4.8 billion in 1974 to $25.5 billion in 1981. Servicing and repayment of the loans, which are owed to 15 Western governments...
...coal mines seized in 1946, railroads in 1950 and steel mills in 1952. Richard Nixon in 1970 sent military troops into post offices where federal employees had illegally left their jobs. Still, taking on the controllers was not quite as difficult as facing down coal, steel, railroad and postal workers???who have far more members and political clout than doesPATCO...
...they have won wage boosts exceeding the government's 10% guideline from some private employers?12% from Ford of Britain, for example. The government has been holding the line on wages for its own employees?who, counting those in nationalized industries, total 7.3 million or 30% of all British workers???but it is under increasing pressure to raise pay levels. Britain's 32,000 firefighters have been on strike since November for a 30% boost, and the 260,000 members of the militant National Union of Mineworkers, who work for the National Coal Board, are demanding pay raises as high...