Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several community leaders--but not Harvard offcials--say the success of the hotel project hinges on a related development on the site of the University-owned Harvard Motor Inn. Currently, the city holds a property right, known as an easement, that allows it to operate a municipal parking lot there, preventing new development...
...times the mayor seemed to be the only councillor interested in the human side of the evening's events. In the middle of debate on the complex Harvard Motor Inn development proposal, Vellucci brought up the acute shortage of textbooks in city schools...
...elderly foundered on charges of age discrimination, Florida enacted regulations ordering all new residents, regardless of age, to pass both written and driving tests. "There's a great need to gradually restrict licensing," says Jane Lange, director of the medical-review program for Arizona's department of motor vehicles. "People age at different rates, so, ideally, it should be done on a case-by-case basis...
When James Bond roars off in the upcoming License to Kill, he'll be driving a Lincoln Continental Mark VII instead of his famous Aston Martin. It's not that No. 007 has altered his automotive allegiance. It's that Ford Motor Co., the maker of the Continental, offered free cars for the film in exchange for putting Bond behind the wheel of its top-of-the-line luxury model. So it was farewell, Aston Martin. In the lucrative world of product placement, show business and big business are seeing eye to eye about getting brand names into the movies...
...time General Motors closed its plant in Fremont, Calif., in 1982, the factory had one of the worst labor-relations records in the country. "We were fighting with GM all the time," says United Auto Workers committeeman Ed Valdez. "The product was going down the line with no one paying any attention to it. 'Ship it! Ship it!' they said." Today, working for New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., a joint venture formed by GM and Toyota in 1983, the same workers are producing almost defect-free Chevrolets and Toyotas with a higher efficiency rating than any GM plant...