Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disrupt production throughout the GM system in both countries. The Windsor trim plant, for instance, produces seat backs, seat cushions and sun visors for every domestic GM assembly plant. Since GM, like other automakers, has adopted new materials-handling techniques that keep inventories low, it could run out of vital parts in just a few days. Even worse, its dealers in both the U.S. and Canada could find themselves quickly short of new models, in part because new-car stocks are still depleted by the seven-day U.A.W. walkout in the U.S. a month...
...Rondine turned out to be the biggest, freshest City Opera triumph in years, and it symbolizes the remarkable recovery the company has made under General Director Beverly Sills. From a debt-ridden organization that was also floundering artistically, the City Opera is re-emerging as a vital musical force, offering adventurous new repertory and sparkling singing. Even its finances are improved. Says the irrepressible Sills, whose sanguinity was tested by the tribulations of the past five years: "I stuck out all the garbage, and now I'm going to enjoy the caviar and champagne...
...vital signs are good, especially for a company on the brink not long ago. "I remember taking the books home one night after I became director and my husband telling me it was hopeless," says Sills. There was a multimillion-dollar deficit. The split season (eleven weeks in the fall, ten in the spring) meant redundant start-up costs of $1 million each year. Production expenses were spiraling. "There were days when I could hardly talk myself into coming to the office," she says. "There would be a big meeting on Tuesday morning, and I would be told there...
Although they are now considered essential measures of economic performance, such vital yardsticks as the gross national product and the consumer price index have come into widespread use only in recent decades. During the 1940s economists made rapid strides in their ability to sift through the billions of transactions that make up economic behavior and distill them into key statistics that indicate the state of the economy. Few experts have been more crucial in turning the numerical potpourri into some kind of order than Sir Richard Stone, 71, who last week won the 1984 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...
...final uncertainty is NASA's space station concept itself. While some studies have suggested that such a project may be feasible, NASA officials readily admit that the future direction of any such program is unclear. Moreover, the role of the military--a vital aspect of any such program--remains ambiguous as well. According to Thomas F. Rogers, director of the space station assessment project for the Conressional Office of Technology Assesment, the nation's vision of such a plan is is still "far too fuzzy." He adds, "Without a clearer, more thoughtful vision, how can we expect consensus. And without...