Word: taurus
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...billion factory-automation business (such items as computers and other electronically controlled industrial machinery make up much of the rest), the mechanical menials have drastically altered many sectors of the American workplace. Robots perform more than 98% of the spot welding on Ford's highly successful Taurus and Sable cars. At Doehler-Jarvis, a major Ohio metal fabricator, robots load and unload die-casting machines, trim parts and ladle molten metal. At IBM factories across the country, robots insert disk drives into personal computers and snap keys onto electronic typewriter keyboards. At a General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth...
...other cultures. The brilliant supernova of A.D. 1006 was seen and described by an Egyptian scribe named Ali ibn Ridwan and by European monks. The exploding star of 1181 was noted by the Japanese. But it is the supernova of July 4, 1054, which suddenly blazed in the constellation Taurus, near Orion, that is perhaps most significant to present-day astronomers. It exploded only about 6,000 light-years away and left behind the slowly writhing, gradually expanding and delicately beautiful cloud of glowing gas known as the Crab nebula. Studies of the structure and dynamics of the Crab have...
Ford has succeeded by cutting costs by some $5 billion during the past six years. Another plus: its popular, curvy Taurus and Mercury Sable cars. For the last quarter of 1986, the Taurus (base price: $11,076) outsold all other models...
...They are the Premier, an intermediate-size sedan that will reach showrooms in October, and a sportier coupe, code-named the X-59, which will appear a year later. The Premier and the X-59 have not yet been priced, but will compete against such cars as the Ford Taurus and the Nissan Maxima in the $11,000-to-$16,000 range. Unveiling the Premier at the Chicago Auto Show on Feb. 6, Cappy declared that it would "bury AMC's Joe Lunch Bucket image once...
...Beretta coupes. GM hopes that the cars, to be available for rent about three months ahead of their official March 12 debut, will turn some heads. The spiffy Chevrolets (estimated price: $8,500) represent GM's strongest answer yet to the popular styling of Ford's Tempo and Taurus lines...