Word: retool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move constitutes buckling under to Detroit. But, concedes Associate Administrator Barry Felrice, "the timing is awful. No matter where we come out, we will be raked over the coals for being anti-consumer." Whatever action the NHTSA does decide upon, the auto industry will still not be able to retool completely for new and cheaper bumpers until at least the 1985-model year...
...fingers don't ache," said Julie Stevens, 18, who makes her living copying complex patent applications. The Maltron keyboard's main problem is simple entrenched inertia. Manufacturers all make the QWERTY, and millions of typists around the world know it. So nobody, so far, seems inclined to retool-or become obsolete, even for a month...
...increased its output of alcohol-consuming cars from 5,000 in July to 26,000 in November. Only one of every five cars coming off the Volkswagen assembly line is now gasoline-powered. Drivers unable to buy new alcohol-consuming cars have besieged mechanics, who, for about $900, will retool a gasoline engine to burn alcohol...
...last week by the second lowering in its long-term debt rating this year; Standard & Poor's gave Ford's corporate bonds a simple A, rather than AA, rating. The change will make it much more expensive for the company to borrow the money needed to retool plants for small-car production...
...industrial and a rising Third Wave, driven by computer technology that threatens to transform the way most of the world lives and thinks. It is a world of "info-spheres," "techno-spheres," "biospheres" and "psycho-spheres." A Third Wave society would be "de-massified" by computer-controlled factories that retool easily and make standardization obsolete. The traditional financial ties between producers and consumers would be altered to create "prosumers" who could make and maintain goods for their...