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But, if he had bothered to read any history books, he'd have discovered that a new set of entrepreneurs was born out of the massive Boeing layoffs of 1970, when tens of thousands of unemployed Boeing workers were trying their hands at anything to make a buck.
But, say the LAT and NYT, the merger shouldn't cause major layoffs because the two car lines are so different.
USA Today leads with Defense Secretary William Cohen's warning to Congress that failure to approve an emergency spending bill and a new round of base closings will mean big layoffs of Pentagon civilians and fewer high-tech weapons.
The infusion of funds effectively saved Alabama's Legal Services programs, which have been scrambling to find funding amid layoffs and benefit cuts.
Today's Papers wonders why these papers think layoffs that will happen in the next few months would have any effect on last month's employment statistics.