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- From: bks@alfa.berkeley.edu (Bradley K. Sherman)
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- Subject: Smith Corona plant closure
- Date: 23 Jul 1992 03:20:34 GMT
- Organization: Tight-rope Walkers, Inc.
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- Per the radio: 875 U.S. workers are being laid off at a Smith
- Corona plant and the plant is moving to Mexico. The plant is
- turning a profit. The profit is not big enough for the stockholders.
- Goodbye jobs. Goodbye tax revenue. Goodbye community.
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- Per the radio: General Electric and Rockwell International have been
- found guilty of fraud. Not one U.S. contract has been cancelled, nor
- have these companies been barred from getting future U.S. contracts.
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- --Brad Sherman (bks@alfa.berkeley.edu)
-
- Per Webster's:
- treason
- 1: the betrayal of a trust: TREACHERY
-