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...Search committee chair and spokesperson Charles P. Slichter '45, reached at the Omni Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, Ohio the night before The Crimson identified Rudenstine as the committee's nominee. Slichter was attending an American Physical Society convention...
...from foreign partners. Honda, Toyota, Nissan and other Japanese companies have driven away with that segment of the car business, boosting Japan's overall share of the U.S. auto market from 19.6% in 1980 to 27.7% last year, or 2.7 million vehicles. When Chrysler dropped its U.S.-made Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon models this year, the company began relying strictly on Japanese-built vehicles to fill out the small-car category of its product line. Ford was able to stay in the market only by basing its new Escort and Mercury Tracer cars on a Mazda prototype...
Picking up where Robocop left off, Peter Weller returns as Alex Murphy, a former Detroit supercop killed in the line of duty and brought back to life as a crime-fighting cyborg ("half man, half machine--all cop") by Omni Consumer Products (OCP), an intensely profit-driven private conglomerate which runs the police department...
When Chrysler announced early this month that it will close the aging Detroit plant where workers assemble the last of the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon models, the situation had ominous parallels to the calamitous early 1980s. Only six years after its fabled turnaround, here was Chrysler embattled again, posting losses on its North American operations for the first time since 1982. Amid persistent auto-industry speculation that Chrysler might be forced to merge with a foreign partner, here was Chairman Lee Iacocca declaring that for the company to survive, it must cut at least $1 billion...
After an embarrassing false start, during which workers futilely hand scrubbed individual rocks, Exxon refined some techniques that show promise for future oil-spill cleanups. The omni-sweep, a spray nozzle at the end of a 100- ft.-long mechanical arm, allowed workers to hose steep shorelines that were otherwise inaccessible. High-temperature, high-pressure rinses proved moderately effective in scouring oil-fouled rocky beaches, but they killed intertidal creatures such as barnacles and snails. Coast Guard Captain David Zawadzki compares the process with chemotherapy...