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Word: gm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fast enough to produce the 10,471,800 cars and trucks that the four automakers turned out last year. (Volvo and Saab together assembled only an estimated 316,500 vehicles in 1971.) The American automakers have not been exactly prolific with ideas of what to try instead. One GM plant in California experimented briefly with rewarding regular attendance by passing out initialed drinking glasses. Ford's approach is to show each new assembly worker a film illustrating the tough and monotonous nature of the line. Apparently the company figures that the worker may be less discontented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACTORIES: Disassembling the Line | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...rules not apply to acts committed before the change. But what if a new law decreases possible punishments? Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie faced that question last August when the legislature overhauled the state's drug laws. Under the tough old rules, for example, selling as little as 2.5 gm. of marijuana brought a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years; now judges may impose terms as short as six months or even suspend a first offender's sentence. Aware that more than 600 convicts were serving time under the old penalty structure, Ogilvie decided "to make old sentences conform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Retroactive Justice | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...Boston, its three main "sights", after the auto plants, are all corporate monuments built next to highways: one is "the largest tire in the world", on the road in from the airport, a multi-story whitewall job by Goodrich; another is a huge electronic billboard sponsored by Goodyear, greeting GM executives returning to Bloomfield Hills, which reveals--not the time, not the Dow-Jones Industrial Average, but the minute-by-minute total number of cars and trucks produced since the beginning of the year; finally, there is my favorite--a six-story-high flaming spark plug which flashes to drivers...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Hailey Finds The Fountainhead | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...factory, adultery in a motel. Eerily for me, many of the scenes take place in the shopping centers, auto dealerships and driveways of my home town of Birmingham, also home of the rocky marriage of Adam and Erica Trenton. Adam, the book's hero, is reportedly modelled on GM Vice President John DeLorean, known in the industry as a young Turk because he used to drive foreign sports cars until successive promotions forced him to start driving Chevrotlets. At any rate, Adam and Erica are suffering from the Great American Angst because each has begun to find inanimate objects more...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Hailey Finds The Fountainhead | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...where--during a weekend affair with a black schoolteacher--Adam says softly. "For the first time in my life I know, really know, what it means when they say 'Black is Beautiful.'" No, the real moments are like the one at a business conference where Hailey has the GM Board Chairman 'whimsically' saying, "Unless anyone has a better suggestion, we might as well begin." Yes, that's the way it is. That's exactly what passes for whimsy in the Motor City...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Hailey Finds The Fountainhead | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

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