Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese have cut inventory costs by building parts plants next to assembly plants and using the same part on several car models. Now Chrysler, instead of shipping big batches of transaxles by rail from its Kokomo, Ind., plant to Belvidere, Ill., for assembly, moves smaller loads by truck, gaining at least 24 hours. Total saving on inventory from such measures: $450 million a year. Chrysler has cut the number of different parts it uses to 40,000, from 70,000. That means, for instance, that van buyers can choose only one kind of tinted glass, not two. Total savings: about...
...like to hit, but not just for the sake of hitting," the soft-spoken Sheehy says. "My whole purpose of hitting someone is to take him out of the play. Now, if I have a chance to rail someone...
Like mausoleums of a passing age, they stand shuttered and empty. They are the padlocked steel mills of what has come to be known grimly as the American Rust Bowl, and from the rail sidings of East Chicago to the icy waterways of western New York State, they offer mute testimony to the industrial damage that has been done by the longest economic decline in half a century...
...complete the rehabilitation of the air-traffic-control system, which was left in shambles after the controllers' walkout in August 1981. She also has to carry out the new 50-per-gal. increase in the gasoline tax and complete the transfer of the Government-owned Consolidated Rail Corp. to private interests...
...Some 1,200 of Nkomo's onetime rebels have deserted the armed forces, returning to Matabeleland, homeland of the Ndebeles. The region has turned into an African version of the wild West, with former ZIPRA guerrillas roaming the countryside in small bands, murdering or kidnaping civilians, ripping up rail and power lines and robbing scores of people...