"I hear you’re shutting the place down," Griego said cheerfully. "There’s a big workers’ strike going on there. Well, of course that’s a blow to our futuristic research effort, but I don’t want you to worry. We understand labor troubles, here in the auto business. If we can lobby Congress to let us keep this fiscal year’s R&D deductions, we think we can survive the loss of our Buna lab."