Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials took notice of unused capacity at an American Motors assembly plant in Kenosha, Wis., they hired AMC to start building cars like the Chrysler Fifth Avenue there. Chrysler has embraced high-technology equipment in its operations but has made the transition from the old ways at an orderly pace so that the new machines . function well. Boasts Sperlich: "Chrysler seems to be the one domestic company that has learned how to make its robots spray-paint cars instead of each other...
...Iacocca plans to relinquish the driver's seat. Sitting in his cluttered office and smoking an eight-inch Cohiba cigar given to him by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iacocca answers the question by first conceding that he has slowed down a little. "I * can't take the pace around here anymore. Those 16-hour days are for the young crowd. It comes with age -- you slow down a step like the ballplayers." But Iacocca sees no reason why he should necessarily retire at 65, and none of his subordinates wants the job of telling him it is time...
They could be Eugene O'Neill's soul-wizened Tyrones, or an extended Chekhovian family chatting its way toward collapse, or the Ewings under sedation. And Tarkovsky is happy to display them in their dolors, at his pace, with all the spare majesty of his style. In the morning, Alexander celebrates his birthday by planting a tree with his son -- an ordinary bucolic tableau, captured in a ravishing shot that lasts almost ten minutes. That afternoon, when the daughter playfully balances a pear on the doctor's knee, it seems a daring bit of coquetry; nothing more need be revealed...
...first time since 1924, probably by a margin of $350 million or so. "Ford is the shining star of the automobile industry now," says Jack Kirnan, an expert on the field for the Kidder, Peabody investment firm. The popular Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable have emerged as the pace cars of U.S. automotive design, thanks to their distinctive curves. On the financial side, Ford has slashed its excess automaking capacity and boosted worker productivity...
That three such important development could come to light in the same week, Monjan said, "reflects the pace of the research and maybe even the rate at which the disease is becoming elucidated...