Word: saturns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perform an in- orbit service call on the space telescope in 1993. In the meantime, pictures from the Hubble can be sharpened by computer enhancement. The telescope has taken some surprisingly good shots, including images of a gas jet streaming from a newborn star and a huge storm on Saturn...
...action is part of GM's campaign to concentrate operations in its most efficient plants, most notably its new Saturn factory in Tennessee. "GM wants to begin the decade of the '90s with a clean slate," says Scott Merlis, an analyst with the investment firm Morgan Stanley. The automaker's latest downsizing, which will eliminate an estimated 20,000 jobs, drew no protest from the United Auto Workers. One reason is that the U.A.W.'s new contract with GM allows many workers who lose their jobs to get severance equal to as much as three years...
...commitment to changes as bold as Saturn's represents a major turnaround in the thinking of corporate America. A report issued last year by the Council on Competitiveness, a group of scholars and industrialists, concluded that U.S. industry had declined in the past two decades because "top U.S. managers , began to focus on marketing and finance at the expense of manufacturing and, as a result, failed to manage the investments in worker skills, plant and equipment necessary for a strong manufacturing capability." The council noted that Japanese manufacturers "spend two-thirds of their R. and D. budgets on process innovations...
...other words, corporate America seems to be recognizing that making the product right is as important as dreaming it up and selling it. "People should look at Saturn as a potential watershed," says the University of Michigan's Cole. "This is not just a bunch of guys using some new machinery on the plant floor. It's really an entirely new vision of the system." If the vision is clear and true, the 1990s could bring a vigorous comeback for American industry...
...automaking in the U.S., just head south from Detroit on Interstate 75. As it courses through Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, I-75 follows a corridor that has served as fertile ground for so-called greenfield factories, built from scratch for high productivity. This is where GM put its new Saturn plant, but most of the new factories along I-75 are Japanese transplants...