Word: flints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SECURITY and ONE DAY HEADLINES, THE NEXT DAY BREADLINES. At a Chevrolet plant in Van Nuys, Calif., most of the 4,045 U.A.W. members walked off the job, and the facility shut down. The company was forced to cancel two Saturday shifts at its Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich...
...acre area, carrying off jewelry, pottery and carvings. Once at the Guatemalan site, Adams turned his attention to a spot less than a mile from a 130-ft.-high pyramid that was flanked by a cluster of temples. Workers digging an exploratory trench discovered that flakes of flint had been scattered through a layer of masonry, a funerary custom of the Maya. Digging farther, the archaeologists uncovered the remains of a stone platform and the outline of a plaster dome...
...their workers closer to what they are making. At the plant where Pontiac builds its stylish Fiero, Manager Ernie Schaefer has eliminated one rank of supervisors, forcing responsibility on line workers. The pressure is on, he says, "to do it right the first time." At a Buick plant in Flint, Mich., a worker monitors the reliability of springs on a computer screen, rejecting those that do not measure up. Says Utilityman James Adkins: "I like it. It makes my job easier...
Workers claim that the auto companies are getting tougher in other ways, too. Executives, they say, pit one plant against another, using interplant rivalries to spur production, a tactic called "whipsawing." Says Bob Breece, president of the U.A.W. local at Chevrolet's Flint, Mich., motor division plant: "They come in and say, 'If you don't give concessions we're not going to give you this work or we're going to shut you down.' " Breece's plant is due to close in May or June of next year...
...foreign painter alive today is more genuinely popular in America than Hockney. Certainly none has achieved such popularity with less compromise in the essential quality of his work. That work has its ups and downs, like any other oeuvre, but one would need a flint heart and a glass eye to resent Hockney's success. The bleached-blond thatch, the square face like that of a cubified owl, the schoolboy spectacles, the togs (blazers, cricket caps, candy-striped odd socks) that suggest the house captain of some imaginary...