Word: opel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine is a computer-calculated risk for IBM President John Roberts Opel, 56, who last January became the company's chief executive officer. He hopes that the personal computer will contribute to a new period of company growth after several sluggish years...
...Opel is a quintessential product of IBM. The holder of an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, he started out as an IBM salesman in Jefferson City, Mo., and has spent his entire 32-year career at the company. A scholarly-looking man known to his colleagues as "the Brain," Opel commands the company's work force of 341,279 employees from the firm's headquarters in Armonk...
...world auto market of the late 1980s will also be a much more homogeneous one. U.S. companies for years built big cars like the Chevrolet Caprice for the North American market, and smaller ones like the Opel Rekord abroad for the foreign market. By the mid-'80s, however, there will be one world auto market. The same car is likely to be seen on the streets of Frankfurt, West Germany, and Fargo, N. Dak. The Lynx, Escort and J-cars are all such "world cars." Models will be assembled in places like Japan and South America, in addition...
...American auto companies (Chrysler, GM, Ford), which build good small cars in Europe (Simca, Opel, Taunus, respectively), claim that they need 1) subsidies from taxpayers and 2) import restrictions in order to figure out how to build small cars in America...
...minutes later, in the Arab industrial city of Nablus, 35 miles north of Ramallah, Mayor Bassam Shaka'a, 49, said goodbye to his wife Anaya and his son Nidal, 18. Ordinarily, Nidal performed the chore of starting up the engine on his father's battered 1966 Opel, which was parked in the family courtyard, but on this morning the youth was studying for his high school exams. As the mayor started the ignition and depressed the clutch, a bomb exploded, severing both of his legs. Nidal ran to the car, and cradling his father in his arms, carried...