Word: tooled
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...industry that has been coasting along in second gear since the end of the Viet Nam War. Most companies cut payrolls sharply during the late '70s, and they now face shortages of both experienced aerospace engineers and blue-collar employees, including skilled production-line workers and tool-and diemakers. Says Hugh Johnson, vice president of First Albany Corp., a New York brokerage firm specializing in the defense industry: "Labor is going to be a real problem. Conservatively, the shortage of engineers ranges between...
...originate. To go partners with that throwback, Americans have carried out of their own history another curiosity that evolution forgot to discard as the country changed from a sparsely populated, underpoliced agrarian society to a modern industrial civilization. That vestige is the gun-most notoriously the handgun, an anachronistic tool still much...
...Using the royal family as a negotiating tool is a dirty trick." But his support was steadily evaporating, and by week's end - just two days after his attempted take over - San had fled the country...
Critics have attacked Carter for relying too much on his pollster, but Caddell insists that he was consulted on public opinion only after the major decisions had been made. He says one can only use presidential decisions as "a tactical tool" after the policies have been set. "You can't pick which ones will make you popular," he adds...
...lifetime employment know that they have a guaranteed job, and that their future is tied up with that firm, they are willing to be more flexible at work than employees in many Western countries. New machinery is not a threat to a worker's job but a useful tool that may help improve company profits. As Fujio Mitarai, head of Canon U.S.A., told TIME'S Robert Grieves: "In order to automate production, we had to divert workers into altogether new fields. We moved them from cameras to copiers to calculators, but we kept everyone employed in the process...