Word: gm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Known as granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, the drug boosted the victims' count of white blood cells, the body's primary defense against infection, after just ten days of treatment. The additional cells could help AIDS patients fight off bacteria, viruses and other life-threatening microbes. Groopman believes GM-CSF could one day be used to treat a variety of diseases. "This is the first time that anyone has been able to regulate the white- blood-cell count in man," he says. "There are implications for cancer patients and people with bone-marrow disorders...
...that the No. 2 U.S. automaker would be the U.A.W.'s priority target in seeking a new three-year pact. The designation was meant to put increased bargaining pressure on the target company, a pattern that in years past meant a settlement with Ford would quickly be applied to GM and Chrysler as well. But that is no longer the case: bargaining this year could be the most complicated -- and perhaps the roughest -- in quite some time...
Bieber may have little trouble getting Ford and its 104,000 U.A.W. employees to reach an accord. The company passed much bigger rival GM in profits last year ($3.3 billion vs. $2.9 billion) largely on the basis of cutbacks begun in 1980 that cost some 50,000 workers their jobs. With that painful exercise over, Ford's profits are expected to be just as good or better this year. Meantime, the company's domestic-market share climbed from 18.2% last year to 20.1% in July, and some Ford plants are humming along at more than 100% of normal capacity. Facing...
Maybe not at GM, where the U.A.W. contract expires along with Ford's. (Chrysler's domestic U.A.W. contract does not expire until next year. But some 70,000 Canadian workers whose contracts with all three automakers expire this month picked the No. 3 company last week as their strike target.) On the contrary, GM Chairman Roger Smith said last week, "I don't know of anyone in the world who can give you a 100% job guarantee if you are in a cyclical industry...
...images, which are put onto flat photographic plates, the Camaro is recorded on a concave plate and projected into the air by laser beams. The hologram was designed with funding from General Motors, which still painstakingly builds scale models of new car designs out of clay. In the future, GM and other automakers may be able to use holograms to see what a car will look like before it is actually manufactured. Eventually, such images may be made by laser-age copying machines for a few dollars apiece...