Word: gung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happens, though, LaVergne is just four miles down the road from the Nissan autoworks that inspired the screenwriters of Gung Ho, the 1986 Hollywood film about Japanese-American factory relations. The movie depicts the Japanese takeover of a mythical Pennsylvania company town as a comic clash between a lackadaisical work force and transplanted managers obsessed with efficiency. Although Bridgestone and LaVergne officials play down the comparison, workers at the Japanese-owned tire plant have another perspective. Says Roger Sherrill, a longtime tire assembler at Firestone who was on hand when the Japanese arrived: "That movie hit it right...
...initials and those of Elmtaryd, his family's farm, and Agunnaryd, the community where he grew up and where he began the business some 40 years ago by selling ball-point pens through the mail. IKEA's management is still youthful, light on titles and neckties and thoroughly gung ho. The spirit is whipped up in seminars for employees on "the IKEA way." One thing stressed in the sessions: everyone has a right to make mistakes, so long as they learn from them...
...travel. North then began to map plans to put the finding into operation; so far, nothing much seems to have come of those plans, but the way North used the memorandum of notification, says one source ^ who worked with him, "really explains Ollie's rise to prominence." Watching the gung-ho Marine employ such methods made at least some of his colleagues uneasy. "Oliver North is going to get the President in real trouble," an NSC aide told a friend two years ago. Last year, before the Iran-contra scandal became public, the aide repeated the warning: "Just remember...
...team had no superstars, just a bunch of gung-ho overachievers; the other boasted a troika of standouts--one on offense, one on defense and one guarding the goal mouth...
MARRIED. Tom Cruise, 24, cocky, boyish screen actor (Risky Business, Top Gun, The Color of Money); and Mimi Rogers, 32, earnest TV performer (Paper Dolls) and movie actress (Gung Ho, Street Smart); he for the first time, she for the second; in New York State...