Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sable cars. At Doehler-Jarvis, a major Ohio metal fabricator, robots load and unload die-casting machines, trim parts and ladle molten metal. At IBM factories across the country, robots insert disk drives into personal computers and snap keys onto electronic typewriter keyboards. At a General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth, one robot drills 550 holes in the vertical tail fins of an F-16 fighter in three hours. It used to take three workers eight hours to do the same...
...firm as well. He hopes that the Interstate Commerce Commission will approve the merger on the ground that struggling Trailways might otherwise go out of business. To help gain support for the deal, Currey pledged last week that Greyhound would not abandon some 400 towns, including Albany, Ga., and Fort Polk, La., that are now served exclusively by Trailways...
...When the Fort Halifax Packing Co. shut down a poultry plant in Winslow, Me., in 1981, it refused to comply with a state law that required it to give most of its 125 employees severance of one week's pay for each year worked. The firm argued that only the Federal Government could regulate employee benefits...
...service. She cites a longstanding interest in human rights as motivation for her participation in both of these organizations. A faithful presence at Amnesty's bi-monthly letter-writing sessions, Ueno remarks that occasionally she and fellow Dunster resident Astrid Guttmann '87 were the only ones holding down the fort...
...English Chairman Joel Porte leaves the University to accept a fulltime post at Cornell University next year, the department will have only one full-time Americanist on the faculty. Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch, who was lured away from Columbia University in 1983, will have to hold down the fort alone next year. Ironically, he came to Harvard saying he hoped to lead a renaissance of the study of American culture...