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Some of those who rushed to buy an expensive robotic system got less than they bargained for. At a Ford Motor plant in St. Louis, snags in 200 production-line robots delayed the 1986 introduction of the Aerostar minivan. Then the discovery that the same robots had been skipping many key welds led to the recall three months later of some 30,000 of the vehicles. In another disastrous episode, a Campbell Soup plant in Napoleon, Ohio, was outfitted with a $215,000 system designed to lift 50-lb. cases of soup. But anytime it encountered defective cases, the machine...
TRUCKING. While most people are probably unaware of it, the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 has saved them a bundle. The law boosted efficiency by dismantling 45 years' worth of interstate hauling rules, including some oddball anomalies like provisions that allowed agricultural haulers to transport milk but not yogurt or ice cream. All told, trucking deregulation since 1980 has saved consumers $72 billion in lower prices on the goods they buy, according to Citizens for a Sound Economy, a conservative, Washington-based research group...
...glee club. Singer Kate MacKenzie, a.k.a. Sheila, the Christian Jungle Girl, rushes up to check a cue. Sound men and stagehands circulate. Buster the Show Dog signs autographs, in the person of Actor Tom Keith, who also does the voices of Father Finian and Timmy, the Sad Rich Boy, motor and siren noises and dandy skyrocket effects...
Around Commencement time, most Cambridge hotel rooms are filled with Harvard guests, who made their reservations last year if not earlier. The Harvard Motor Lodge has been booked for three and one half years--since spring of the Class of '87's freshman year...
Despite a grand Venetian setting, this year's summit agenda calls for more work and less public ceremony for the participants. President Reagan will travel every morning by covered motor launch across the Venetian lagoon from the plush Hotel Cipriani, where he will stay, to the tiny Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, situated directly across from the famous Piazza San Marco. The formal summit talks will take place in the bay-windowed, dark-paneled library of a 17th century Benedictine monastery on the miniature island. Security will be so tight that the traditional photograph of the summit leaders will...