Word: tarrytown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excessive emphasis on cost cutting," he recalls, "produced an aberrant method of evaluating performance. At one time the assembly plant in Tarrytown, N.Y., year in and year out produced the poorest quality cars of all 22 GM U.S. assembly plants. In some instances, Tarrytown cars were so poorly built the dealers refused to accept them." Yet because of consistently low production costs, DeLorean contends, the plant manager got one of the highest bonuses among all GM managers...
...formed, would probably be similar to those the UAW has formed with G.M. in certain manufacturing plants. In Quality of Working Life (QWL) programs, additional training, improvements in the work environment, and committee systems have formed the basis of a new atmosphere of union-management co-operation. At Tarrytown, New York and elsewhere the QWL programs have apparently turned hostile working environments into more productive, harmonious factories...
Thomas Morrette Tarrytown...
When Happy Rockefeller decided to toss a party for 400 or so close friends, she knew just the spot: Pocantico Hills, the family's 3,000-acre estate overlooking the Hudson near Tarrytown, N.Y. It was at the stone-walled residence that folks such as Pierre Trudeau, Henry Kissinger, Arthur Burns and Averell Harriman, helped Nelson Rockefeller celebrate his 70th birthday last week. And it is to Pocantico Hills that the Rockefellers plan to retire eventually. To that end, the former Vice President has put his 21-room retreat on Seal Harbor, Me., on the market. The down-East...
...When I look out through your windows," crooned Frank Sinatra, "you make me young again, even tho' I'm very old." OF Blue Eyes' rendition of / Write the Songs brought his audience to its feet last week at the Westchester Premier Theater in suburban Tarrytown, N.Y. So did Co-Star Dean Martin's antics...