Rockwell Collins to lay off up to 300 at Cedar Rapids unit
Cedar Rapids based Rockwell Collins Commercial Avionics will cut as many as 300 jobs including assemblers engineers and clerical staff. Outplacement services are arranged with Cambridge Careers with local employers ready to hire and a career center opening next week. Spokesman Terry Francisco notes severance and vacation pay with up to 13 weeks of pay for long service and stresses industry restructuring rather than a quick recovery. The firm expects industry output to stay weak into the decade with a target of about 600 planes annually and no repeat of the 1991 surge.
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Stone
Rockwell
Rockwell-Collins
Terry Francisco
Francisco
Hospitals defend tax free status in Iowa push
Des Moines and state leaders debate requiring not for profit hospitals to share police and fire costs. The Iowa Hospital Association cites charity care and wellness programs as benefits while noting 30 percent of Des Moines property is tax exempt. A Drake University study backs hospital community value as leaders seek possible legislation.
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Azette
Iowa
Des Moines
Richard Clark
Clark
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Hospital Association
IHA
Drake University
Paul Anderson
Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital
Anderson
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mercy Medical Center
Iowa Capitol
Nova looks at rare vision loss on Nova program
Montezuma resident Bob Broadston who has lost 90 percent of vision due to brain damage will appear in the PBS Nova segment Touch Vision. The episode airs Wednesday on IPT Channel 12 and features doctors Hanna and Antonio Damasio who studied his case using PET scans and Brain Vox imaging.
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Dave Gosch
Uazette
Ontezuma
Bob Broadston
Broadston
Public Broadcasting Service
Montezuma
Touch/ Vision
IPT
Channel 12
Gazette
University of Iowa
Hanna
Antonio Damasio
Hanna Damasio
University Hospitals
City reform bid advances in Cedar Rapids vote push
P. T. Larson has one fourth of the signatures needed to place the Cedar Rapids commission system on the ballot. Details on page 1B. Mustangs win in 4 overtimes Mount Vernon edges Solon 87 86 in a quadruple overtime boys basketball game. Details on page 1D. Republicans rush to deliver on Contract with America Details on page 2A.
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P.T. Larson
Cedar Rapids Commission
Mustangs
Mount Vernon
Solon
Congress
America
Mount Vernon Junior Carmen Stoner Dominates Beef Expo
Mount Vernon High School junior Carmen Stoner won shorthorn steer and heifer titles at the Beef Expo in Des Moines over the weekend. Elmer Vavricek of Cedar Rapids reflects on the final months of World War II in the Pacific, with Ramblin’ on page 1B.
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Mount Vernon High School
Carmen Stoner
Des Moines
Elmer Vavricek
Cedar Rapids
Pacific
Ramblin
Mexico Raises Rates to 49.75 Percent Amid Peso Crisis
Mexico's central bank lifted short term rates to 49.75 percent in a bid to shore up the peso and reassure foreign investors and the Clinton administration as talks for a $20 billion U.S. loan package continued. Treasury Secretary Rubin and Mexican Finance Minister Ortiz pressed toward an agreement, with concerns over recession and widespread loan costs rising as the peso devalued.
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Washington Post
Mexico
Clinton
White House
U.S
Treasury
Robert Rubin
Guillermo Ortiz
Bank of Mexico
Dutch parenting helps babies sleep through the night
Dr. Sara Harkness and Dr. Constance Keefer report that Dutch babies sleep longer and more soundly than American infants due to regular routines and less daytime stimulation. The study compared 36 Cambridge families and 66 in Bloemenheim, noting Dutch infants' longer nighttime sleep and earlier bedtimes.
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Atlanta
Sara Harkness
Pennsylvania State University
Harkness
Constance Keefer
Harvard Medical School
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Cambridge
Mass
Bloemenheim
Netherlands
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