Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this an American auto plant, or a factory from another planet? The company president walks around in a polo shirt with a pocket logo right out of Star Trek, allows workers to call him "Skip" and describes his position as "team member." He and the union boss (who goes by "Dick") have a strange, collegial relationship. As for the rank and file, they don't punch a time clock and they get to handpick the people they work alongside. During off-hours they run around an outdoor obstacle course and engage in group hugging sessions. If they develop...
...this is an American auto factory, one as far out as its name: Saturn. Situated 35 miles south of Nashville in the small town of Spring Hill, Tenn., the Saturn plant and its 3,000 team members represent a grand experiment in $ American manufacturing. For General Motors, which has invested eight years and $3.5 billion to launch Saturn, the venture has a specific competitive goal: to build small cars as well as the Japanese do -- and then some. But GM's even more heroic mission for Saturn is to help the world's largest industrial company (1989 sales: $126.9 billion...
...from Iraq is that Saddam Hussein is only a few years away from developing nuclear weapons and accurate medium-range missiles to deliver them. The British TV network Channel 4 reported last week that Baghdad may have discovered uranium in northeastern Iraq and may already be operating an enrichment plant there. If the report is true, Saddam is poised to develop a nuclear weapon sooner than most experts have predicted...
...Minneapolis financier. Chase Manhattan, the second largest U.S. bank, is letting go 5,000 employees, or 12% of its work force, in a struggle to remain solvent. McDonnell Douglas, the No. 1 defense contractor, is slashing its payroll by 17,000 workers, or 13%. At the General Electric plant in Louisville that makes refrigerators, dishwashers and other appliances, managers plan to lay off as many as 500 of the plant's 10,800 workers because of falling sales. "This is not just a thing we're forecasting," said a spokesman. "We're experiencing...
...obviously a plant on the Dartmouth Review. James Freedman probably set the whole thing up," said Peninsula council member Sean P. McLaughlin...