Word: processions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Weslowski said the bill would likely be signed "any day" by President Carter, but added that no plan for implementing it had yet been approved. "We may have to go through the whole process again with the buildings we've just nominated," she said...
...process by which Reagan is choosing his Cabinet is revealing of the man and his methods. He has entrusted the talent hunt to old friends with whom he feels comfortable and has given them a great deal of leeway. In Reagan's eyes, Smith is the ideal man to head such a committee. A successful Los Angeles lawyer-he could become Attorney General-Smith is respected by his peers for his intelligence and integrity, and for his ability to stand up to Reagan, when need be. A man who has served on dozens of corporate, educational and cultural boards...
...sizes of fish in a catch, then separate them into various bins with its mechanical arm. The company is developing similar robots to process fruits and vegetables...
...noisy inferno at Westinghouse's lamp factory in Bloomfield, N.J., a Unimate 2015G robot performs a process called "swaging." This is somewhat like making spaghetti, but it is done with 21-in. rods of yellow tungsten, destined to become light-bulb filaments. The robot lifts them off a conveyor belt and sticks them into a blazing furnace (3,200° F), then into a swaging machine that stretches the rods until they have grown to 37 in. in length and shrunk to exactly .467 in. in diameter. Three workers, each of whom cost the company $20,000 per year...
Aside from the specific problem of lost jobs, Shaiken warns of more intangible difficulties. "The use of robots has social costs that are not being addressed by anyone in the U.S. today," he says. "By designing a production process that minimizes human participation, you freeze out the worker's control and you freeze out his initiative. We often overlook the impact of robots on the jobs that remain. Today, if a worker assembling components has a daily quota of 100 units to fill, he can, for example, work flat out and assemble 60 in the first half...