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>From al@newslc1.gvg.tek.com Thu Jul 23 20:02:47 1992
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 20:02:42 PDT
From: al@newslc1.gvg.tek.com (Al Thorpe)
To: srm@newslc1.gvg.tek.com, al@newslc1.gvg.tek.com
Subject: DEC deal with Bush - comp.sys.dec #10495
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In article <QePQTee00WBOQ4jBQU@andrew.cmu.edu>, tw1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tse-Sung Wu) writes:
|> NOTE CROSS-POSTINGS--
|> 
|> I am not interested in a flame or even mildly heated debate about the
|> candidates.  I just have a rumor that I'd like to know if anyone could
|> confirm or deny.  I haven't seen anything posted on the net.  If I
|> missed something, please forgive the rehashing.
|> 
|> The daughter of a classmate of mine works at DEC somewhere and said that
|> it is common knowledge among DEC employees (the story is purportedly
|> floating about on DEC's email net) that a huge (30,000? employee) layoff
|> has been _postponed_ until after the election at the request of
|> President Bush.  And that the latter offered DEC hefty contracts in
|> return for the postponement.
|> 
|> Is this just a rumor, 'cause I haven't seen anything about this in the
|> papers.  Not interested in flames, just want to know if this is just a
|> rumor.
|> 
|> Tse-Sung


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Didn't DEC just post a huge loss that would justify such a layoff? Let's
get to the bottom of this, shall we?
								MPA