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General Motors, for instance, lost $460 million to strikes in 1997, but investors treated the costs as a kind of "extraordinary charge" and valued the company as if the losses had never happened.
In part, this may be because Frum is a bit of a snob; practically the only argument in the book that strikes Chatterbox as truly passionate is Frum's withering denunciation of the old-line northern Protestant sects for failing, in trying to make Christianity more "relevant," to attract new members.
Shanker crippled New York City's school system in the late 1960s with strikes against school decentralization.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post front page reports that Chinese officials are threatening military strikes against Taiwan if the U.S. provides Taiwan with missile defense systems.
China Daily said Friday in an editorial that behind America's "barbaric air strikes against Yugoslavia" lies a plan to divide Europe and dominate the world.