Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at the steel and auto industries in the U.S. which are union and at their foreign, non-union competition, you'll see there's a major difference [in efficiency]," he said. But Powers added that the University is trying to be as cost-effective as possible. "I don't think it's just the unions--in the structural trades and the custodial services, many contractors are unionized," he said...
...Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Under the direction of Finance Minister Jacques Delors, the Socialist government experimented with wage and price controls, cut spending and instituted an ambitious "industrial restructuring" that could over the next four years lead to the layoff of 50,000 workers in unprofitable industries like steel and coal mining. Over the longer run, Mitterrand's aides fret, the government will be forced to sustain its belt tightening until the parliamentary elections scheduled for mid-1986, when the Socialists may pay dearly at the polls for what critics have dubbed "Thatcherism à la gourmandise...
...example, General Electric has invested $38 million to modernize an outdated dishwasher factory. Central computer panels, sometimes monitored by just one person, check the full range of production and part supplies. The manufacturing process is carried out with a precision that cuts down on waste of materials like sheet steel, plastic and rubber hose. Controls can be quickly reprogrammed to make any of 15 dishwasher models...
While Congress was jousting with the oil companies, the Reagan Administration was unusually fractious last week on another corporate coupling. In an article in the New York Times, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige blasted the Justice Department's decision to block the joining of LTV and Republic Steel because it would reduce competition. Baldrige called the ruling "a world-class mistake" because it hinders the steel industry's efforts to become more competitive with foreign producers. A day later, outgoing Attorney General William French Smith issued a statement defending his department and pointedly remarked that antitrust decisions would...
...more than token adjustments in the new $50 billion Socal-gulf company. Reagan can claim no significant anti-trust prosecutions during his tenure--despite the mergers that have resulted in 30,000-mile railroad giants like Norfolk Southern and Southern Pacific-Santa Fe, and the recent rumblings in the steel industry where U.S. Steel, Republic Steel and LTV Corporation, three of the five biggest steel companies in the country, are planning mergers and acquisitions...