Word: redesigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Riccardo took over in 1975, the public was demanding smaller, more fuel-efficient cars, but Chrysler, unlike GM and Ford, lacked the money to retool and redesign quickly. With smaller sales than the other two automakers, Chrysler had to spend nearly twice as much per vehicle to meet Government rules. Pressed for cash, the company had to slash its budget for plant modernization...
...Cuban exiles who had watched their comrades die on the beach; quizzing Fidel Castro and dozens of his victorious defenders. The result is truly The Untold Story: an infuriating tale of blunders by bureaucrats and a young President who was too dazzled by the CIA and the Pentagon to redesign-or abandon-a hopeless project...
...claims the Construction and Management division of the University redesigned the fire sprinkler system in the building from the original spraying system to a sprinkler system that required extensive piping, causing a delay in other roofing work. In addition, he says Harvard procrastinated in its approval of one of the subcontractors by quibbling over the price being asked. In the end, Cruz says, he was forced to seek out another subcontractor, a friend, who was willing to charge a reduced rate. Both the redesign and the procrastination delayed the project two months, he says, because the ceiling and other work...
...tough-we will have to do some rather extensive analysis." Should Omni-Horizon fail NHTSA tests, the agency could order Chrysler to recall all autos sold in order to correct the trouble. And if, as Consumers Union suspects, the flaw is "an inherent design defect," the agency could require redesign and replacement of the whole steering system...
...plane while serving as a Marine radar controller at Atsugi, Japan, in 1957, and that he provided information to the Soviets either then or upon his defection to Russia in 1959. Oswald's information, the book suggests, enabled the Soviets to redesign their rocket-guidance systems so as to knock CIA Pilot Gary Powers out of the air over the Soviet Union...