Word: motors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must take exception to your statement: "Like Lockheed, the British auto giant [British Leyland Motor Corp.] had to seek government assistance to keep it going; in 1975 the British government spent millions to buy 95% of the company's stock and rescue it from bankruptcy...
...this summer because refiners had to devote more of their production than usual to heating oil during the icy winter. But now only a few spot shortages of unleaded fuel are possible. On June 3, at the start of the warm-weather driving season, national inventories of motor fuel totaled 257 million bbl., 38 million bbl. more than a year earlier, and driving has not been increasing much. During the first four months of 1977, drivers used only 1.9% more gasoline than they did during early...
...multinational companies have become so commonplace that exposing them is emerging as a growth industry in itself. Last week when the London tabloid Daily Mail published an expose of an elaborate system of alleged bribes and payoffs maintained by Britain's big, government-controlled automaker, British Leyland Motor Corp., the shock waves reached the highest levels of Britain's shaky Labor government...
Throughout the spring, Stanford University students have actively opposed the administration's policies on South African investment. Last week, 300 Stanford students were arrested during demonstrations protesting the university's refusal to support an anti-apartheid stockholders' resolution at the Ford Motor Company's annual meeting. In recent months, students have mounted protests similar to the Hampshire and Stanford demonstrations at campuses throughout the country, including at the University of Connecticut, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois...
...courts finally decided that they had jurisdiction to hear the case-so the Government and company served each other with demands for millions of documents to be examined before trial. The Federal Trade Commission's suit against eight major oil companies is flowing about as speedily as heavy motor oil; it was filed four years ago, but lawyers do not expect trial to begin until the early 1980s. That would about match the pace of a Justice Department suit seeking to break up IBM, which took six years to move to trial in a New York courtroom...