Word: retoolings
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...workers employed by Firestone at the factory had dwindled from a peak of 850 in early 1980 to 260. Bridgestone intends to keep on all current employees and recall 170 laid-off workers, probably by next week. The company will invest $35 million over the next five years to retool the factory with efficient new equipment and perhaps quadruple the current tire output...
...culprit is the Walsh Bros. Co., signed on by Harvard to retool Lowell and Winthrop Houses, which were secretly falling to pieces. Somehow, Walsh's fire alarms, installed in mid-summer, have managed to be triggered by just about anything--footsteps, sneezes, running water, sunrise. The one thing these smoke alarms don't seem sensitive to, oddly enough, is fire. One student tells of accidentally failing to open his fireplace flue, seeing his room fill up with smoke, and never hearing a peep out of his detector...
...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...