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...Atlanta felt compelled to return to Americans their national drink. When Coca-Cola announced last April that it was changing the taste of the world's most popular soda, it failed to foresee the sheer frustration and fury that the news would create. From Bangor to Burbank, from Detroit to Dallas, tens of thousands of Coke lovers rose up as one to revile the suddenly sweeter taste of their favorite beverage and demand old Coke back...
...winner is Spring Hill, Tenn., a bucolic community of 1,400 located 28 miles south of Nashville and 563 miles away from the auto industry's epicenter in Detroit. The site is not as out of the way as it sounds. It is only about 30 miles from Smyrna, where Nissan builds cars and trucks, and some 30 miles from La Vergne, where Bridgestone makes tires. The success that these two Japanese companies have had in Tennessee reportedly impressed GM, as did the state's abundant electricity, favorable tax structure and productive labor force. Despite its fame as the home...
...past, Detroit's efforts to cut costs have usually run up against poor management policies and rigid union work rules and job classifications that limit productivity. So in 1983, long before the Saturn project was unveiled, GM invited the U.A.W. to help devise a better way to build cars. A study group of 65 representatives from the union side and 34 from management began a series of brainstorming sessions that included field trips to Japan, West Germany and Sweden...
...announcement of the winning site will be the climax of a contest that bore a passing similarity to the 1849 gold rush. More than 20 Governors made pilgrimages to Detroit to woo GM, offering all sorts of land deals, tax breaks and worker-training grants. Minnesota's Rudy Perpich said his package of inducements was worth $1.3 billion to the company. To remind GM's executives of its lures, Missouri erected a billboard in downtown Detroit that read GIVE US A RING. Another sign said CHICAGO WANTS YOU. Celebrities were enlisted as well. Boxer Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini touted Youngstown...
Mitch Albom, who has made grown men cry--and made a bundle of moolah--with such earnest fare as The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is in publishing purgatory. In his column in the Detroit Free Press, he wrote of two ex-Michigan State basketballers cheering at their alma mater's Final Four game. Trouble is, they weren't there. Albom filed his column before the game even started. He apologized, and his paper promised an investigation. Uh-oh. What if he really spent his Wednesdays with Morrie...