Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carl Meyers, 45. As a vice president in charge of product planning for American Motors Corp. Meyers urges his designers and engineers to create smaller cars that consume less gas. With a degree from Carnegie Tech and a classical background in autos-he held responsible jobs at Ford and Chrysler-Meyers has developed a keen appreciation for the conflicts between zooming costs and design innovation. Now Meyers is a champion of the rotary engine and is experimenting with an auto whose engine would be in the middle of the vehicle...
...back office at New York's largest bank, he approached the operation-which employed 8,000 people and had a $100 million budget-as if it were a factory whose product was processed paper. To help him run the factory, Reed recruited experienced industrial employees from Ford and Chrysler. Regarded as a potential successor to Citibank's presidency, Reed has written articles seeking to interest students in corporate careers and is now studying the electronic (paperless) transmission of credit...
...need for the Government to borrow in competition with private borrowers for scarce funds. A thinner deficit should also ease inflationary pressures, which continue frighteningly strong. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel raised prices 5% to 15% for many products (U.S. Steel for the third time in seven weeks), and Chrysler boosted auto prices $60 a car, its fourth increase on the 1974 models...
...Atlanta that they scarcely stir much interest any more, though eyebrows lifted when William Allison, a black antipoverty administrator, was recently named to the prestigious board of the Coca-Cola Co. By the latest count, 72 blacks serve as board members of major U.S. corporations, including General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and IBM. Says Bradley Currey Jr., president of Atlanta's Chamber of Commerce: "The trend is clearly away from tokenism...
...project, says Bricklin, began when he asked some frustrated designers from GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors to design a car that would handle well yet meet all federal safety and antipollution standards. The car, which looks something like a Maserati, has such safety features as a sensor device to prevent the car doors from closing if a passenger's hand gets in the way. Bricklin considered some 4,000 suggestions for a name, then insouciantly decided to call the car - what else?- the Bricklin...