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Message: [QUOTE="FAL, post: 709667, member: 2294"] 1: [SIZE=12px][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=6][B][SIZE=24px][FONT=inherit]Layoffs by Carrier Corp. Strike Syracuse in Heart[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=10px][COLOR=#808080][FONT=arial]By MICHAEL LUO and LYDIA POLGREEN; Michael Luo reported for this article from New York and Lydia Polgreen from Syracuse. Michelle York also contributed reporting from Syracuse Published: October 07, 2003[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [RIGHT][SIZE=12px][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia][FONT=inherit][FONT=inherit][FONT=inherit][FONT=inherit][LIST] [*][FONT=arial][URL='http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/nyregion/layoffs-by-carrier-corp-strike-syracuse-in-heart.html?src=pm'][SIZE=10px][COLOR=#333333][FONT=inherit]SIGN IN TO E-MAIL[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/FONT] [*][FONT=arial][URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/nyregion/layoffs-by-carrier-corp-strike-syracuse-in-heart.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm'][SIZE=10px][COLOR=#333333][FONT=inherit]PRINT[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/FONT] [*][FONT=arial][URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/nyregion/layoffs-by-carrier-corp-strike-syracuse-in-heart.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm'][SIZE=10px][COLOR=#333333][FONT=inherit]SINGLE-PAGE[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/FONT] [/LIST][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/RIGHT] [SIZE=12px][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=15px][FONT=inherit]The name of a cooling company has been inseparable from this frost-belt city since the Depression, when city leaders scraped together $250,000 and tax incentives to lure the inventor of the air-conditioner, Willis H. Carrier, and his business from Newark. The deal worked, and the Carrier Corporation became a mainstay of a community whose best-known landmark is the Carrier Dome, the home arena for the Syracuse University Orangemen.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=15px][FONT=inherit]On Monday, the company confirmed rumors that those ties would loosen, announcing that it would close the two manufacturing plants at its East Syracuse site, laying off 1,200 workers and moving those operations to Asia and the South. The company will keep 1,600 jobs here, mainly in research and development, [B]but the decision means that Carrier will no longer make any products in Syracuse, where manufacturing has long been a key part of its identity.[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=15px][FONT=inherit]The move cuts deep in a city already buffeted this year by the see-sawing fortunes of a proposal to build the nation's largest mall.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=15px][FONT=inherit] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=15px][FONT=inherit]2: 2 events??????[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=12px][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia][FONT=inherit][IMG]http://nytimes.perfectmarket.com/pm/images/pixel.gif[/IMG][/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=12px][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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