Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West German and British manufacturers profess to be unconcerned, but Giuliano Lonardi, worldwide marketing director for Fiat, recognizes the challenge. In his view, U.S. firms not only have the billions needed for mass-producing a world car, but through their suppliers they can turn out a tremendous flow of parts in many countries. Says he: "This enormous access to components is the greatest strength of American efficiency in production." Japan's Takashi Ishihara, president of Nissan Motor, speaks as if the American challenge is a war. Says he: "We find ourselves on the eve of intense international competition with...
...members of the Financial Women's Association, a group of successful managers, introduced themselves as qualified candidates for board membership to the heads of 30 major corporations, including General Motors, Pfizer, Kennecott Copper, Uniroyal and Mobil. Said one of the aspirants, Paula Hughes, 47, a vice president and director of Thomson McKinnon Securities: "Being on a board is the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Women get on boards because they have already been on boards." Added another candidate, Ellen Berland Sachar, 37, a vice president and security analyst with Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "People complain that there...
Once corporations have a woman director, says Janet Jones-Parker, an executive recruiter who is chairman of Management Woman, Inc., "there is a certain comfort level of 'Well, we have our woman now.' " Indeed, one of the chief executives at the breakfast was heard to wonder aloud: "I don't know why I was invited. We already have a woman on our board." Another problem for women is that most of them do not yet have jobs as senior as those of the men who get on boards. Says Rosalie Wolf: "Much of the job market...
...intended as a coming-out party for Iran's reborn oil industry. Unfortunately, when Hassan Nazih, the new director of the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC), pressed a button that was supposed to start crude oil flowing into the hold of a waiting supertanker, nothing happened. After 68 days of no petroleum exports at all, Iran had to wait another five minutes while technicians hurried to locate and repair an electrical malfunction in the pumping equipment. For the assembled crowd of government officials and oil workers, the delay was an embarrassment. For the oil-thirsty nations of the world...
...members of this enemy group are the Gang of Four, who have yet to be tried, more than two years after they were arrested. "Our struggle against the Gang of Four is a very sharp and complicated class struggle, a life and death struggle," says Chang Chunglin, a deputy director of research at Peking's Law Institute, "and people who have experience in such struggles know quite well that they are difficult to deal with and still go through all necessary legal procedures." Until recently the "enemies" made up as much as 5% of the population, but the list...