Word: auto
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...U.A.W. may be looking to the young and the restless as much in desperation as in hope; if it continues to be better at organizing scholars and curators than machinists and welders, it will soon be the United (Anything but) Auto Workers. But that may be an early clue to the new direction. Today hall monitors, tomorrow...cheerleaders? And how about the athletes, who generate billions of dollars in college and TV revenue? If the top jocks start chanting "Union! Union!", the halls of ivy could tremble from the roar. --Reported by Joe Pappalardo/Amherst
Trained as an aeronautical engineer, Schuh is designing a partnership between consulting firm A.T. KEARNEY and NASA, marketing the space agency's Mission Control techniques as a management tool for the car industry. At 36, the Viennese head of Kearney's global auto division has persuaded two European companies to coordinate planning, from suppliers to showroom, under one roof...
...easy being Daddy's little girl. Analysts balked a year ago when Stronach, 35, took the helm of her father's company, MAGNA. But since then, Canada's biggest auto-parts maker has posted record sales of $11 billion, up 5%--during the recession. Stronach is steering Magna further into auto assembly, last month buying a Chrysler plant in Austria next to where it already builds Saabs and Mercedes...
...home to auto giant fiat, this is Italy's unrivaled Motor City. But Turin is no Detroit - or Stuttgart, for that matter. Like most other Italian destinations, this northwestern industrial city surprises with how much built-in beauty - and cultural and culinary wealth - there is to sample...
...With the auto plants and assembly lines confined to the outskirts, Turin's center can be pleasantly surveyed with a quick connect-the-squares walk (Piazza Castello to Piazza Vittorio Veneto on the banks of the Po River is a good starting route) that provides some satisfying food for the eyes. The architecture is largely 17th and 18th century Baroque that recalls Paris more than Palermo - many of the most splendid palazzi are the original property of the House of Savoy...