Word: breech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave them salaries that were princely at the time, ranging from $9,000 to $16,000. Among the ten Whiz Kids, as they were called: McNamara and Arjay Miller, both of whom later became Ford presidents. Henry raided GM for the man to head the new team, Ernest Breech, possibly the best production chief in the U.S. at the time...
...Whiz Kids brought modern professional management to Ford. They introduced financial controls and restructured the company along divisional lines, much as Alfred Sloan had done at GM. In the 1950s and 1960s, under Ford and Breech, the reborn Ford Motor Co. prospered and came up with several winners, including the sporty Thunderbird in 1954 and the Mustang in 1964. One failure, though, became synonymous with marketing disaster: the Edsel in 1957. In later years, Ford was not as successful. The company lagged behind its rivals in coming up with the right mix of fuel-efficient cars after the energy crisis...
...Council was apparently wary that the signing of a formal agreement might breech the 1976 Faculty legislation that allowed Harvard students to take only non-credit ROTC classes...