Word: retooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...island. Then during the summer of 1974, faced with financial difficulties and with the start of the busing program only a few months away, the academy's board of trustees decided to close the school calling in a group of educational consultants, they asked how the academy might retool itself to provide an educational consultants, they asked how the academy might retool itself to provide an educational resource for inner city students...
...argue corporate strategy with workers. Says he: "We have had, sometimes, very interesting and fierce and passionate discussions." He overcame worker objections to manufacturing in the U.S. by swinging deals to supply made-in-Germany engines to other manufacturers-including Chrysler and American Motors. He also promised to retool and expand the Emden plant, which was making only Rabbits for export to the U.S., to turn out other cars as well. Schmücker continued Leiding's policy of paying workers as much as $6,000, tax free, to quit. In the past three years the work force...
...production costs by $200 per car, a rare case in which a product can be manufactured more cheaply in the U.S. than overseas. One thing held VW back from the obvious move: labor unions feared that it would cause further layoffs in German plants. But VW proposes to retool its Emden plant, which has assembled Rabbits for the U.S., to make other export models, particularly Dashers and Audi Foxes. German labor leaders finally agreed to that plan...
Detroit reeled when the law was passed, then threw its top engineers into a crash effort to meet the requirements. Given too short a lead time-to retool assembly lines normally takes about two years-the best antipollution device the engineers could come up with was the catalytic converter. Shaped like a standard muffler and attached to the exhaust system, the converter would completely burn hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide,* turning them into harmless water vapor and gas. Estimated cost to the consumer: at least...
...York City for the express purpose of reducing auto-caused air pollution. Williams admits, however, that some modifications will be needed later for the turbine to meet even tougher antipollution laws set for 1976 cars. Considering that-and the fact that it takes much time for automakers to retool plants, realign suppliers and retrain personnel-he predicts that gas turbines will appear in passenger cars in 1978 at the earliest...