Word: automan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equipment: her breasts encased solar batteries. Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man was simply state-of-the-art beefcake. Now an ABC show of stupefying banality called Auto-man offers a fluorescent, blond Superman who is summoned up by a wimpish computer jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show, NBC's Riptide, has something for every armchair technocrat, including a klutzy orange robot with a display screen in its chest and a silly grin on its mute face...
...they are unsure how much they can do in terms of meeting the Administration's goals. After two years of slumping sales, they have already cut their payrolls deeply, and what few dollars they can spare are being plowed back into programs to build smaller cars. Says one automan: "I'm in favor of this in principle, but I think Lewis is being a little naive." The U.A.W., which is already under pressure from GM and Ford to agree to the kind of wage and benefit concessions that Chrysler workers accepted, is prepared to negotiate some sacrifices...