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Word: gm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Motors moved ahead of competitors by becoming the only automaker to have radial tires made to its own specifications. GM radials will be standard equipment this year on Grand Am and Grand Prix Pontiacs and will be optional on some other models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The New-Model Gamble | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...crippling 67-day shutdown of General Motors in 1970, when almost three times as many workers went on strike. Still, it was a severe blow to Chrysler. Lost production will total some 33,000 cars and 8,000 trucks per week. U.A.W. workers continued to clock in at GM and Ford plants under an extension of theftr old contracts, a strategy that the union obviously hopes will bring Chrysler to terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Surprise Strike at Chrysler | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...more direct forms of control, however, multinational chiefs showed little enthusiasm. GM Vice Chairman Thomas Murphy complained that U.N. regulation would simply add one further and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy to those already faced by businessmen investing abroad. Jacques G. Maison-rouge, president of IBM's huge World Trade Corp., noted that Third World nations frequently seek to dilute the power of multinationals within their borders by requiring that subsidiaries of foreign-based corporations be partly or even primarily owned by local investors. Maisonrouge cautioned against any U.N. attempt to foster such rules because they "cripple the effectiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MULTINATIONALS: Summons to the U.N. | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...wage boosts. Last month they staged three wildcat strikes, mostly over safety issues and other working conditions. The most important demand is that workers be allowed to refuse overtime. U.A.W. officials say that in preliminary talks, Chrysler negotiators exhibited less of a "knee-jerk reaction" against such demands than GM or Ford officials. Indeed, almost as soon as they were targeted, Chrysler officials expressed willingness to raise wages and benefits an average 6.2% each year of a new three-year pact, though they did not make a detailed offer. Woodcock did not aggressively demand more. He merely said: "I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Autos Test an Eerie Peace | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...when Woodcock must retire because he will be 65, but first Eraser must show that he is a tough negotiator. Though the odds are against a strike, a number of observers claim that just such internal political pressures inspired Woodcock to lead the 67-day strike against GM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Autos Test an Eerie Peace | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

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