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...bloody Hitler." Using a mixture of threats and bluster, Edwardes cut through a thicket of antiquated factory-floor work habits. Meanwhile, he began to invest heavily in programmable robots and computers to help engineers design and manufacture autos. One result: output has risen in BL's Austin Rover group from 5.9 to 14 cars per worker per year since...
...excited about. It's a cause celebre, a handy catch phrase that covers a wide range of anti-war sentiments, from pacifism to middle-of-the-road pragmatism. Yet, the wholehearted embrace of the nuclear freeze issue-with the idealistic "unilateral" or the cautioning "bilateral"-has resulted in the rover simplification of an issue that defies vague sloganeering...
...last week's celebration of the Sultan's 37th birthday, His Highness inspected his troops from a gold-upholstered Land Rover, while Gucci-shod women in traditional black robes looked...
...expressed their opposition to the death penalty. In an act of blatant provocation on the morning of the vote, the I.R.A. staged its most devastating attack of the year in Northern Ireland. Four members of the Ulster Defense Regiment were killed by a land mine that destroyed their Land Rover...
...football season watching the athletes and dreaming of some day being one of them. I was a voracious reader. I went to the public library about once a week and took out a couple of books. I went through all the books about Frank Merriwell at Yale and the Rover Boys-the college experience and the emphasis on dying for dear old Rutgers...