Word: leyland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese are usually minutely well informed about their prospective partners. Recalls a onetime official of BL PLC (formerly British Leyland) who worked on a joint agreement with Honda: "The Japanese negotiators seemed to know more about our labor and managerial problems than...
...Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD) is planning an "emergency press conference" for the day after the first prosecution, no matter when or where the suit taken place. The conference, BAARD member Nora H. Leyland said, will take place at the Arlington St. Church, and will feature Dr. Benjamin Spock. Spock was one of four people arrested at that site in the late 1960s for draft resistance activities...
...names still strike a nostalgic chord in the hearts of automotive enthusiasts: the MG and Triumph sports cars, the four-wheel drive Land Rover and the sleek Jaguar. But these days BL Ltd. (formerly British Leyland), Britain's one remaining large-scale auto producer, is only a pale shadow of its former self. MG production ceased a year ago, and the last Triumph was built in October. And now, the very existence of BL is in doubt...
...declined an estimated 12%, while Japanese imports climbed nearly 30%. Thousands of workers were laid off or had their hours cut back last year, and losses by major car manufacturers are staggering. France's Peugeot S.A. lost an estimated $33 million in 1980, and BL Ltd. (formerly British Leyland), maker of Triumph and Jaguar, ran $960 million in the red. In fact, BL Ltd.'s very existence depends on its receiving $2 billion in government aid to help pay for development and introduction costs of a new 59 m.p.g. Mini-Metro model...
More people responded to last summer's initial round of registration of 19-and 20-year-olds because they were not in school or at work, Leyland added...