Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit is supersensitive to auto layoffs; a Wayne State University study shows that for every pink-slipped auto worker, another 1.5 employees in local supply industries would eventually lose their jobs. The same study reports that for every $1 fluctuation in national car and truck sales, Detroit residents gain -or lose-300. The head of a company that deals with all the major Detroit-area manufacturers says that even the biggest ones are holding off payment for services. Says he: "I've never had to wait so long for my money-ever...
...doubt to prevent just that, the party has ordered a buildup of highly politicized, worker-led urban militia-apparently to counter the P.L.A.'s role as a national police force. In one remarkable slight to the professional military, Shanghai's model militia force was pa raded before a group of the city's top political leaders; incredibly, the local P.L.A. garrison commander was not even invited to the event. Returning the insult, a majority of P.L.A. regional commanders, in what looks like an act of open insubordination, reportedly refused to attend a meeting called by Peking...
Some who otherwise support Bernardin wonder whether his cautious decision making and cultivation of approval may not be signs of overweening ambition. His defenders contend that if the archbishop is ambitious, his zeal is for the welfare of his church, not himself. An almost compulsive worker, Bernardin rises at 6 a.m. to put in a 17-hour day of diocesan business and prayer. But his work is not all done at a desk: he enjoys spending many hours in informal but often serious talk with his fellow clergy and lay people...
Jerry Keene, a member of the Soviet Worker's Party, said last night that the historian Moroz had been jailed for "protesting the 'Russification' of other nationalities in the Soviet Bloc and the oppression of Soviet Jews...
...After further checking, Raab-who had moved from WNET to the New York Times while following the case-broke the story on Sept. 27. "Once Selwyn gets on a story, he's like a nasty dog yapping at your leg," observes CBS Reporter Milagros Ardin, a former co-worker at WNET. "He doesn't let go until he gets what he wants." Says Raab: "The secret of success in this business is to be a long-distance runner. I don't like the words investigative journalism. I believe in enterprise and patience...