Word: retooling
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...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...
...apostles of self-renewal often go back to school to retool their skills. At 43, Los Angeles Aerospace Engineer Leon Elder wants a master's degree in management; last spring he budgeted $12,000 a year in savings to support his family, quit his job and enrolled full time at U.C.L.A. Elder happily matches report cards with his children ("A great way to bridge the generation gap"), foresees a higher-paid business future-or he may teach...
...Pierce at one seminar. "Martin Luther? He was three sheets to the wind on German beer a good part of the time. John Wesley? You'd be sexually frustrated if you had a wife like his." Religious irreverence, insists the institute's dean, Joseph Mathews, helps "retool the minds of clergymen" to secular realities...