Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need for closets full of forms, the CAD/CAM-equipped factory lets engineers "warehouse" inventory parts in the computer, and manufacture them on the spot as required. With such an application, Deere & Co., the Illinois-based farm-equipment manufacturer, expects to save $29 million simply by eliminating the warehousing of excess spare parts...
...assembly line. In reality, the assembly line is often as not a rabbit warren of wasted effort and energy. CAD/CAM experts point out that at General Motors, for example, fully 65% of the company's shop-floor manufacturing effort can wind up going into the production of automobile spare parts and assemblies in batches of no more than 50 to 100 items at a time. With each such run, large sections of the production line of a plant often have to be shut down and retooled to produce the needed parts...
...high of 440,000 patients will elect cosmetic surgery to freshen their features and tuck in their tummies. As if to give the surprisingly durable trend an official fillip, President and Mrs. Reagan have joined the race. A Universal-type weight-lifting machine has just been installed in a spare room of the White House family quarters for almost daily workouts...
...than he is martyred by Alan Plater's offensive and vapid screenplay. At the mercy of lines such as."We writers, we're supposed to be brave," or "Better peoplethan me have been crucified," he tempts us to ask why tuberculosis could not have claimed him sooner and so spare us the pain...
...into a portable microphone and amplifier in her own musical fight against the motorized bustle. The classical musicians and the lone woman each grab a portion of the nighttime crowd, but the audiences are largely transient. The onlookers stay for a song, maybe a few. They often drop some spare change before continuing with their plans, or looking for some...