Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King was a man filled with folie de grandeur, saying 'I can fix it.' I said, 'This is rank treason. Out.' " As it happened, King himself soon became the victim of a coup of sorts. Two days after the Mountbatten meeting, he personally penned a vitriolic anti-Wilson editorial in the Daily Mirror, an I.P.C. paper. The company's board of directors was so incensed that King was fired and Cudlipp installed as chairman...
...years old. About a quarter of them are out of service at any given time for maintenance. Soon after shiny new cars were introduced, they had to be withdrawn when they developed cracks in their undercarriages. Admits MTA Member Steven Berger: "The only way at this point to fix things is to shut down the system for a week and call in a faith healer...
...country's second largest electrical company (1980 sales: $13.7 billion), workers are instilled with the notion that each one of them is a quality-control inspector. If they spot a faulty item in the production process, they are encouraged to shut down the whole assembly line to fix it. Pressure to improve quality reaches beyond the shop floor and often pits entire plants of competing companies like Hitachi and Sony in furious statistical battles to produce the lowest defect rates for products...
...goal of clear-cut superiority is distant and difficult, but they hope to make a big step in that direction by adding three battle groups to the twelve now in service round the world. A battle group consists of about seven warships, including an aircraft carrier. As a quick fix, the Reagan Administration early this month asked Congress for funds to recommission two World War II battleships now in mothballs. They would be refitted for firing cruise missiles and used as the centerpieces of new battle groups until additional aircraft carriers were available...
...been for all too long, the news out of Detroit last week was not good. General Motors announced a recall of 6.4 million cars, the second largest call-back in history, to fix defective axle bolts. Big Three auto sales continued to slump, falling 23.7% during the middle ten days of February. Chrysler got another $400 million in federally guaranteed loans but had to write checks for $350 million to unpaid suppliers. The company also announced the size of its 1980 loss, which, as expected, was the largest ever suffered by a U.S. corporation; at $1.7 billion, it was appreciably...