General Motors

Current members of the board of directors of General Motors are: Percy Barnevik, Erskine Bowles, John Bryan, Armando Codina, George Fisher, Karen Katen, Kent Kresa, Ellen Kullman, Philip Laskawy, E. Stanley O'Neal, Eckhard Pfeiffer, and Rick Wagoner (chairman). Rick Wagoner is also the chief executive officer of the company (since June 1, 2000), succeeding John F. Smith, Jr. General Motors - Social policies. General Motors was named one of the 100 Best Companie ...

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General Motors, General Motors - History, General Motors - General Motors Hughes Electronics, General Motors - Corporate structure and issues, General Motors - Social policies, General Motors - Subsidies, General Motors - Marketing problems, General Motors - Financial woes, General Motors - Plant locations, General Motors - Alternative vehicles, General Motors - GM in China

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Interpretation of Dream Meaning including the meaning of dreams about: Embarrassment, Embrace, Embroidery, Emerald, Emperor, Employee, Employment, Empress, Enchantment, Encyclopedia, Enemy, Engagement, Engine, Engineer, English, Entertainment, Entrails, Envelope, Envy, Epaulet,

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1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. 1955 - Events. January 7 - Marian Anderson is the first African American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. January 22 - Pentagon announces plan to develop ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons 1955 - February. February 8 - Nikolai Bulganin becomes Soviet Premier. February 12 - US Pre ...

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1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). 1993 - Events. January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. January 3 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). January 5 - Washington State executes Westley Allan Do ...

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1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. 1998 - Events. January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths. January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants. January 2 - Russia begins to circulate new rubl ...

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• 1998 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• 1998 - Fields Medalists
• 1998 - Templeton Prize

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The first export of Holdens to New Zealand began in 1954, and for many years they were assembled at the General Motors New Zealand plant in Petone outside Wellington, until it closed in 1990. While the Holden name was used on virtually all GM products in Australia, in New Zealand other GM products from Vauxhall, Bedford, Isuzu, Pontiac and Opel were sold as well. However, for such a small market, it made little sense to have so many brands, so each was rationalized from the 1960s. Chevrolet and Pontiac had effectively disappeared from ...

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Holden, Holden - Australia's own car, Holden - Model-sharing under the Button Plan, Holden - The 1990s, Holden - The 2000s, Holden - New Zealand, Holden - Export markets, Holden - Sports vehicles

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The Budd Rail Diesel Car or RDC is a self-propelled diesel-hydraulic rail passenger car. During the period of 1949–1956, 398 RDCs were built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These cars were primarily adopted for passenger service in rural areas with low traffic density or in short-haul commuter service, and were less expensive to operate in this context than a traditional locomotive-drawn train. The cars could be used singly or several coupled together ...

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• Budd Rail Diesel Car - Variants

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Alexander Wilson founded the company in Vauxhall, London in 1857. Originally named the Vauxhall Iron Works, it built pumps and marine engines. In 1903 the company built its first car, a 5 hp (4 kW) model steered using a tiller, with only two forward gears and no reverse. This led to a better design which was made available for sale. To expand its production the company moved to Luton in 1905, and so the griffin emblem returned to its ancestral home. The company continued to trade under the name Vauxhall Iron Works until 1907, when the ...

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Vauxhall Motors, Vauxhall Motors - Origins of the name and the logo, Vauxhall Motors - History, Vauxhall Motors - List of Vehicles

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1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). 1937 - Events. January 1 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua January 11 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States. January 19 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. January 23 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participatin ...

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Measuring the compression pressure of an engine with a pressure gauge connected to the spark plug opening gives an indication of the engine's state and quality. If the nominal compression ratio of an engine is given, e.g. as 1:10, then the measured pressure in each cylinder should be equal to or higher than 10 bar (see Boyle's law and combined gas law). If there is a significant (> 10%) difference between cylinders, that may be an indication that valves or cylinder head gaskets are leaking, piston rings ar ...

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Compression ratio, Compression ratio - Fault finding and diagnosis, Compression ratio - Saab Variable Compression engine

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Cars can come in a large variety of different body styles. Some are still in production, while others are of historical interest only. These styles are largely (though not completely) independent of a car's classification in terms of price, size and intended broad market; the same car model might be available in multiple body styles. Car body style - Styles in current use. Cabrio coach or Semi-convertible  Style of automobile roof. A car that has a retractable textile cover ...

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• Car body style - Non-English terms
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The following automobile manufacturers produce or have produced automobiles. Note that these are automobile makers rather than individual types. Some of these have never been independent companies but are sub-brands established by a parent company. See also Automobile_Manufacturer_Logos List of automobile manufacturers - Argentina. Andino Lists of companies List of automobile manufacturers - Armenia.

The carburetor (American spelling, carburettor or carburetter in Commonwealth countries, "carb" for short, or "carbie" (slang)) is a device which mixes air and fuel for an internal-combustion engine. Carburetors are still found in small engines and in older or specialized automobiles such as those designed for stock car racing. However, most cars built since the early 1980s use computerized electronic fuel injection instead of carburetion. The majority of motorcycles still are carburated due to lower weight and cost, however as of 2005 many new mod ...

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• Carburetor - Accelerator pump
• Carburetor - Choke strangler
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• Carburetor - Fuel supply
• Carburetor - Float chamber
• Carburetor - Multiple carburetor barrels
• Carburetor - Carburetor adjustment
• Carburetor - History & development
• Carburetor - Catalytic Carburetors
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"Management" (from Old French ménagement "the art of conducting, directing", from Latin manu agere "to lead by the hand") characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). Early twentieth-century management writer Mary Parker Follett defined management as "the art of getting things done through people." One can also think of management functionally, as t ...

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Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958), also known as "Boss" Kettering, was born in northern Ohio, USA. He was a farmer, school teacher, mechanic, engineer, scientist, inventor and social philosopher. He had poor eyesight, but acquired an electrical engineering degree from Ohio State University in 1904. He held that new ideas can be developed through cooperative team ...

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Business action on climate change includes a range of activities relating to combatting global warming, and to influencing political decisions on global-warming-related regulation, such as the Kyoto Protocol. Major corporations have played and to some extent continue to play a significant role in the politics of global warming, especially in the United States, through lobbying of government and funding of global warming skeptics. Business also plays a key role in the mitigation of global warming, through decisions to invest in researc ...

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• Business action on climate change - ExxonMobil
• Business action on climate change - BP
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Cadillac is a brand of luxury automobile, part of the General Motors corporation, produced and mostly sold in the United States; outside of North America, they have been less successful. In the United States, the name became a synonym for "high quality", used in such phrases as "the Cadillac of clocks". This is less prevalent, though still known, in other English-speaking countries (who are more likely to use Rolls-Royce in such phrases). Cadillac - History. Cadillac - Founding.

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• Cadillac - 1932- The year it could have ended
• Cadillac - Wartime Innovation
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• Cadillac - Low points and the beginning of a recovery
• Cadillac - The Art & Science era
• Cadillac - Cadillac models
• Cadillac - Historical and Classic
• Cadillac - Finned Fifties
• Cadillac - Sixties and Seventies
• Cadillac - Alphabetical Model Summary
• Cadillac - Current
• Cadillac - Concepts and prototypes

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The Eldorado model was part of the Cadillac line from 1953 to 2003. The Cadillac Eldorado was the longest running American personal luxury car as it was the only one sold after the 1998 model year. Its main competitors included the Mark Series and the lower-priced Buick Riviera. The name, Eldorado was derived from the Spanish words "el dorado", the "gilded one", the name was given originally to the legendary chief or "cacique" of a S. American Indian tribe. Legend has it that his followers would sprinkle his body with gold dust on cer ...

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• Cadillac Eldorado - 1955
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• Cadillac Eldorado - 1967
• Cadillac Eldorado - The 1970s
• Cadillac Eldorado - 1971
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• Cadillac Eldorado - 1979
• Cadillac Eldorado - 1986
• Cadillac Eldorado - The 1990s
• Cadillac Eldorado - 1992
• Cadillac Eldorado - 1998
• Cadillac Eldorado - The 2000s

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Coleman Alexander Young (1918–1997) served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Coleman Young - Pre-Mayoral career. Young was born in 1918 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Coleman Young and Ida Reese Jones. His family moved to Detroit in 1923, where he graduated from Eastern High School. He worked for Ford Motor Company, which soon blacklisted him for involvement in labor and civil rights activism. He later worked for the United States Postal Service. During the second World War, Young served ...

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• Coleman Young - Four terms as Mayor
• Coleman Young - Assessment

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