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Flaking properties, petrology and use of Polish flint.
Antiquity; 12/1/2000; DOMANSKI, MARIAN WEBB, JOHN A.; 5347 words
; ... Middle Palaeolithic to Early Bronze Age, flint was used extensively in Poland for stone ... Lech 1981; Balcer 1983). Three different flint types were mined around the Holy Cross ... chocolate, grey white-spotted and banded flint), each for a different purpose (short or ...
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GM'S COMPANY TOWN: AS `GENEROUS MOTORS' RETREATS FROM FLINT, THE CITY STRUGGLES TO OVERCOME DECADES OF DEPENDENCE ON GM.
Automotive News; 6/28/1999; Correspondent, DALE D. BUSS Special; 2478 words
; FLINT, Mich. - When General Motors turns the lights off at Buick ... a once-shining covenant between itself and the people of Flint. A generation ago, shutting down Buick City would have been ... ancestor was GM's first assembly plant. GM's bounty made Flint the epitome of the American Dream. Its workers made ...
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Stalled on a rough road As plants close, Flint, Mich., is in need of jump-start
The Boston Globe; 5/4/1998; Michael Grunwald, Globe Staff; 1824 words
; ... expanded to become the world's largest auto maker, Flint expanded with it. In the first 30 years of the century ... 200 percent. As big business flexed its muscles in Flint, big labor emerged here as a formidable foe. GM ... protections in the car industry. The result was that Flint's unskilled working class ...
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David B. Flint Receives NAPIM's Pioneer Award.
Ink World; 8/1/2001; Savastano, David; 1418 words
; ... recipient of the Printing Ink Pioneer Award. For Mr. Flint, it was a double honor to be selected and to join ... very fortunate to have so many individuals from Flint Ink receive the Printing Ink Pioneer Award in recognition ... their contributions to the industry, said H. Howard Flint II, David's brother ...
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Nearly invisible Ink. (Flint Ink Corp)
Crain's Detroit Business; 2/2/1998; McCracken, Jeffrey; 1043 words
; But Flint Ink's impact is easy to point to For a company that sells 650 million pounds of ink annually, Flint Ink Corp. gets precious little of it. So little ... first thought was, This company must be based in Flint. Like many locals, Frescoln was unaware that one ... s ever read the Detroit Free Press, The ...
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Flint Ink solidifies its No. 2 spot; Purchase of pair of ink companies adds to market share.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Crain's Detroit Business; 6/5/2000; Green, Leslie; 641 words
; Flint Ink Corp. of Ann Arbor, the second-largest maker of printing ink in the world, has absorbed two more rivals. Flint Ink last month completed the acquisitions of U.S.-based Alper ... of $187.15 million. Terms of the deals were not disclosed. Flint Ink President and COO Dave Frescoln said the acquisition ...
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Registration of `Flint' Canola-Quality Rapeseed.
Crop Science; 3/1/2001; RAYMER, P.L. PHILLIPS, D.V. WYATT, D.A. COY, A.E.; 885 words
; `Flint' rapeseed (Brassica napus L. ssp. oleifera ... Experiment Stations and released in 1998. Flint is a spring-type, Canola-quality rapeseed ... broad adaptation to the southeastern USA. Flint is an [F.sub.4] derived line that originated ...
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A critic looms large; GM engineers invited writer Jerry Flint to give a speech, and he railed against their leaders. Now, thanks to the Internet, Flint's words have traveled far.(Jerry Flint, General Motors Corp.)
Automotive News; 3/26/2001; Buss, Dale; 1639 words
; ... accepted speech invitations extended to them by Flint on behalf of the International Motor Press Association ... the company's mostly adversarial relationship with Flint and about what an old coot he is, and then they spoke ... from the moment he teed up his remarks in Milford, Flint made it clear that he ...
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Flint maintains cool under fire.(Sports)
The Boston Herald; 12/7/2000; Murphy, Mark; 1008 words
; Bruiser Flint can't say that the view is unfamiliar. His ... the rather vocal public that called for Flint's head last year. Sure, it's early, but that hasn't squelched the debate as to whether Flint has what it takes to save his job by making ...
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WOE IS FLINT, A CITY OF LOW SELF-ESTEEM.
Automotive News; 6/28/1999; Correspondent, DALE D. BUSS Special; 783 words
; Flint seems to have a sign on its figurative back that says, ``Kick me.'' The rest of the world is nasty enough to Flint, Mich., which has become a mass-media synonym for the Rust ... popular PC game for kids, for example, SimCity 2000, uses Flint as one of four settings where participants can play out a ...
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