Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abandon the business, GE gave an antiquated factory in Erie, Pa., what General Manager Carl Schlemmer calls an "electronic heart transplant." Cost: $500 million. Giant computer-driven arms and machine tools help the factory turn out locomotives in a fraction of the time once required. A 2,500-lb. motor frame that took 16 days to build can now be done in 16 hours. By 1986 GE could be making about 800 locomotives a year, up a third from current levels...
Pininfarina's styling has not been seen in an American auto since he designed the Ambassador and Healey models for the Nash Motor Co. in the early 1950s. His work is far more widely known to car buyers in Europe, where his firm regularly creates models for Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Peugeot. The Rolls-Royce Camargue (list price: $150,600) was designed by Pininfarina, who has also styled every Ferrari built since 1952. His 1946 Cisitalia coupe is the only car on permanent display in New York City's Museum of Modern Art. It was chosen...
...fleetest soul around. "No doubt about it," says Composer-Arranger Quincy Jones, who produced Off the Wall and Thriller with Jackson. "He's taken us right up there where we belong. Black music had to play second fiddle for a long time, but its spirit is the whole motor of pop. Michael has connected with every soul in the world...
...nearby Sherman Oaks, can sometimes notice, as she catches a phantom glimpse of Jackson, that "he looks so sad." She thinks the reason may be that "everybody is always shoving things in his face." Occasionally Jackson comes out to the yard. Sometimes he will ride a red-and-white motor scooter. Sometimes he will take his electric car for a spin. It is a close copy of a vehicle from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland. Outside the iron gates, the fans on the street can see him whizzing along the driveway, playing by himself, and at those times...
...double rigs with theoretical weight equal to those of 45-foot trailers, but with 11 tempting feet of extra cargo space. These trucks provide a ripe opportunity for the unscrupulous trucker--and more than one-quarter of them are unscrupulous--to overload in pursuit of bigger profits. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated the industry, finally making it a competitive one--and 3000 new carriers seized the opportunity to grab permission to run on 36,000 new routes in 1983. The competition is brutal; the railroads have moved in to grab back a full 10 percent of the transportation...