Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latecomer to the Saab wooing game, which began when Ford started courting the company earlier this year. After the collapse of those negotiations, auto-industry analysts expected Italy's Fiat to be the winning suitor. For Saab-Scania, which lost $123 million on its car-making operations in the first half of 1989, the advantage of the deal was access to GM's deep pockets. GM will gain badly needed production capacity at Saab's five plants in Europe, plus a stronger position in the U.S. and European luxury-car markets...
Lamont University Professor Amartya K. Sen will fly to Turin in March to receive the Fiat Group's Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize for the Ethical Dimension in Advanced Societies...
...press release, Fiat described Sen as an "untypical" character among contemporary academics...
...prize, which was established in 1987, seeks "to strengthen public thought and action concerning the ethical problems that confront us," according to Fiat...
...rules or guidelines for these activities have ever been issued by the masters--these guidelines originate in a student/tutor committee, following house discussion, and students, tutors and masters alike have consistently preferred self-regulation to imposed rules of censorship. Similarly, it was student concerns, not the master's fiat, which led to new Secret Santa revelation procedures for this year's dance...