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Containing some so-called givebacks of past salary and benefit gains but assuring some job security during the next 31 months, the new contract between the Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers raced through the union ratification process last week like a greyhound chasing a mechanical rabbit. By midweek, the agreement had been approved by the U.A.W.'s international executive board and the Ford unit council meeting in Chicago. Decisive rank-and-file endorsement is this week by the 160,000 U.A.W. members who are Ford employees, with the contract going into effect March...
When Ital Design was retained to develop Nikon's F3 35-mm camera, Giugiaro looked beyond styling to make the most of the camera's improved technology. The motor drive attaches to the bottom of the camera, providing a low center of gravity that offsets the weight of a projecting lens. In addition, the comfortable hand grip is constructed in such a way as to permit stable one-hand operation...
Under another new statute aimed at minor violators, a $5 ticket that goes unpaid for 21 days automatically becomes a $10 ticket. If the payment is still neglected after a warning letter is issued, the fine jumps to $25 and the city notifies the registry of motor vehicles...
...exposures, easily the life of the camera. Most revolutionary of all is the revolving film pack. The new cameras use a thin, 2½-in. -diameter plastic disc that is priced at $3.19. The disc slips into the camera's hatched back and is turned by a motor for each of its 15 exposures...
During his successful four-year campaign to persuade the British government to cough up $156 million in loans and grants, maverick Automaker John Zachary De Lorean confidently predicted that American customers in 1982 would buy 20,000 of the sporty stainless-steel autos manufactured by De Lorean Motor Co. (price tag: $25,000). De Lorean, however, had not reckoned on the continued disastrous slump in U.S. auto sales. Since last June, only half of the 7,000 De Loreans shipped to the U.S. from the company's manufacturing site in Belfast, Northern Ireland, have been sold. As a result...