Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world of padded shoulders and Hudson Hornets is divided into the locals - those who are actually living and working on the film in 1948 - and the visitors - those like himself who were mysteriously dumped there. There are scores of visitors, including a Philadel phia cook named Whittaker Kaiser, who is a merciless lampoon of Norman Mailer at his most masculine pugnacious. Richard Nixon even puts in a brief appearance, wanting to know if there is an extradition treaty between 1948 and the future...
...general, says Karl Kaiser, one of West Germany's leading foreign policy scholars, "the prospects are not bad at all. The major element of continuity is the Secretary of State. The foreign policy of Ford will be about the same as Nixon's-moderate, prudent internationalism. On balance, it is encouraging to see the American system cleanse and correct itself...
Manley finally rammed through the Jamaican Parliament a set of new taxes and royalties calculated to raise Jamaica's revenues from bauxite to $200 million this year, eight times as much as in 1973. Though the companies are paying, they protest: Alcoa, Kaiser Aluminum and Reynolds Metals have announced their intention to take their case to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a branch of the World Bank, for observation on the ground that the new taxes violate a lawful contract...
...granting more on-the-job autonomy to employees have increased output at Procter & Gamble, IBM and AT&T, among many other firms. At Motorola, portable beepers for paging doctors and others are no longer assembled on lines; one worker gets the satisfaction of putting the whole unit together. At Kaiser Aluminum's plant in Ravenswood, W. Va., maintenance costs and tardiness fell after the company removed time clocks and permitted workers to supervise themselves and decide what machines to service and when...
...quixotic ventures that a young business man could dream up, the farthest-out would seem to be making automobiles. It has been 28 years since an American started an auto-manufacturing business from scratch - and that was a disastrous flop for Henry Kaiser. So meet Don Quixote - in the form of flamboyant Malcolm Bricklin, 35, a Phoenix, Ariz., resident who wears studded denims and bedecks himself with silver-and-turquoise jewelry...