* Harry Sinden, former GM and coach of the Boston Bruins

In 1959, he suffered tragedy when he accidentally shot and killed retired GM vice president, Harry W. Anderson, while on a duck hunting trip to Canada.

Boston GM Harry Sinden intended to select defenseman Keith Brown, but Brown was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks immediately prior to Boston's selection.

Air Commodore Arthur Henry ( Harry ) Cobby CBE, DSO, DFC & Two Bars, GM ( 26 August 1894 – 11 November 1955 ) was an Australian military aviator.

Grandmaster ( GM ) Raymond Keene writes that Nimzowitsch " was one of the world's leading grandmasters for a period extending over a quarter of a century, and for some of that time he was the obvious challenger for the world championship.

" GM Jan Hein Donner called Nimzowitsch " a man who was too much of an artist to be able to prove he was right and who was regarded as something of a madman in his time.

In 2009, transgenic maize was grown commercially in 11 countries, including the United States ( where 85 % of the maize crop was genetically modified ), Argentina ( 83 % GM ), Brazil ( 36 % GM ), South Africa ( 57 % GM ), Canada ( 84 % GM ), the Philippines ( 19 % GM ) and Spain ( 20 % GM ).

but such imports remain controversial even though in 2012 the EU was reported to import 30 million tons a year of GM crops.

No positive samples have been found since 2004, showing that, most probably, it was possible to withdraw this GM crop without leaving traces in the environment once it has been used in the field

On February 18, 2010, it was announced that Shapiro ( following the end of the 2010 season ) would be promoted to team President, with current President Paul Dolan becoming the new Chairman / CEO, and longtime Shapiro assistant Chris Antonetti filling the GM role.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

For Atlanta, a new GM Goodwrench scheme was introduced, with angled red stripes and a thin blue pinstripe, resembling the Childress AC Delco Chevrolets driven in the Busch Series.

Special pennants bearing the No. 3 were distributed to everyone at the track to honor Earnhardt, and the Childress team wore blank uniforms out of respect, something which disappeared quickly and was soon replaced by the previous GM Goodwrench Service Plus uniforms.

In 2010, GM made an initial public offering that was one of the world's top 5 largest IPOs to date.

" Concerning the decision of Zambia, Greenpeace has stated that, " it was obvious to us that if no non-GM aid was being offered then they should absolutely accept GM food aid.

The new office building was conveniently able to utilize the still standing GM Assembly Plant parking garage located on Elm Avenue.

However, with the market flooded by inexpensive cars, none of the minor automakers was able to sell vehicles at loss leader prices to keep up with Ford and GM.

While MIDI 1. 0 by itself provides a communications protocol which ensures that different instruments can interoperate at a fundamental level ( e. g., that pressing keys on a MIDI keyboard will cause an attached MIDI sound module to play musical notes ), GM goes further in two ways: it requires that all GM-compatible synthesizers meet a certain minimal set of features, such as being able to play at least 24 notes simultaneously ( polyphony ), and it attaches specific interpretations to many parameters and control messages which were left under-specified in the MIDI 1. 0 spec, such as defining instrument sounds for each of the 128 possible program numbers.

GM synthesizers are required to be able to:

However, the merger of the Vauxhall and Opel marketing departments had already resulted in Dealer Team Vauxhall and Dealer Opel Team ( DOT ) joining to form GM Dealer Sport ( GMDS ); with the Chevette soon to be obsolete, Opel were able to force the cancellation of the HSR rally programme in favour of the Manta 400.

The Flint Sit-Down Strike was a risky and illegal enterprise from the outset: the union was able to share its plans with only a few workers because of the danger that spies employed by GM would alert management in time to stop it, yet needed to be able to mobilize enough to seize physical control of GM ’ s factories.

Instead Lewis was able to extract a collective bargaining agreement from U. S. Steel, which had previously been an implacable enemy of unions, by pointing to the chaos and loss of business that GM had suffered by fighting the UAW.

The UAW was able to capitalize on its stunning victory over GM by winning recognition at Chrysler and smaller manufacturers.

Nevertheless, the venture was so successful for Durant that he was able to buy enough shares in GM to regain control, becoming its president in 1916.

Usery was able to get GM, Toyota and the UAW to agreed to a first-of-its-kind labor-management partnership: The UAW agreed to Toyota's production methods and Toyota agreed to make the UAW an equal partner in managing the plant's productivity and quality control procedures.

But 15 years later, GM had still not been able to implement lean manufacturing in the rest of the United States, though GM managers trained at NUMMI were successful in introducing the approach to its unionized factories in Brazil.

The GM minivans, while more successful than the Astro / Safari duo in terms of market share, were able to capture a large chunk of the market away from the Chrysler models.

GM was able to produce the with no turbo, nor an EGR system to pass emission standards ; it required a 9. 5: 1 compression ratio.

The Nemo was able to use existing low-cost weaponries like the Rick Dias's beam saber and the GM II's beam rifle, and incorporated the cutting-edge movable frame design as well as the light-but-strong gundanium alloy armor.

Being a holding company, GM was better to able to weather this situation.

GM and Suzuki had formed an alliance in 1981, and so GM was able to market the Cultus as a captive import, introducing it to the North American market as the 1985 Chevrolet Sprint.

As the Xebra was sold in the US, which protects intellectual property rights, GM was able to sue to stop its importation.

Adam was able to drive a 3rd generation Camaro ( which shares the same GM F platform used on the Firebird and Trans Am ) at 55 mph up the ramp into a moving truck and Jamie drove the car down from a truck.

Alternatively, the GM may build their own world and script their own adventures.

AM General continued to build the H1 until it was discontinued in 2006, and was contracted by GM to produce the H2.

In early May 2009, Jim Waldron, a Davison, Michigan, Pontiac dealer, announced that he was interested in purchasing the Pontiac brand and logos, and had found financing to purchase them as well as some soon-to-be shuttered GM plants in order to build cars.

However, after a battle among plants in Spring Hill, Orion Township, Michigan and Janesville, Wisconsin, GM announced on June 26, 2009 that they had chosen to build a new small car in Orion Township.

In November 2011, GM announced plans for retooling of the vehicle assembly portion of the plant for use as an " ultra-flexible " plant which will initially be used to build the Chevy Equinox and GMC Terrain but will be designed for rapid retooling to other vehicles of similar size.

Since late 1962 when the new GM Stingray was shown up briefly by the Mk1 Cobra ( until hub failure intervened ) the development of the Grand Sport Corvette program had continued at a pace and was thought to be going for a build series of 125 cars.

Sloan rose to president of GM in the 1920s, going on to build the company into the world's largest automaker.

Magna's plans for Opel included attracting GM or third-party carmakers to build their cars and electric vehicles in Antwerp.

GM used a European theme in its ads that year in an attempt to build the image that the LaSalle was a worldly vehicle, fashionable in all settings and places.

The year 1981 was also the last for Pontiac Motor Division to offer its own V8 engine due to an emerging GM corporate engine policy that determined Pontiac would build only four-cylinder engines and Buick only V6 engines, leaving Chevrolet and Oldsmobile to build V8 engines for most GM cars and trucks, while Cadillac would produce its own aluminum-block V8 that debuted in 1982.

The temporary loss of Hydra-Matic production led Oldsmobile to build thousands of its 1953 models with Buick's two-speed Dynaflow automatic transmissions until GM pressed its Willow Run Transmission plant into service to resume Hydra-Matic production.

The company annually sponsors a number of student engineering competitions, including the SDR Forum's Smart Radio Challenge, where university teams build and demonstrate a software-defined radio ; and EcoCAR, an advanced vehicle technology competition created by the United States Department of Energy ( DOE ) and General Motors ( GM ).

In an effort to sell the car as being economically sensible, GM equipped and sold the Fiero as a commuter car ; however, the marketing build up leading to initial release indicated anything but a regular commuter.

The 1987 model would be the end of the manufacture of the RWD " G-Body " Regal, but GM had to extend the build of the Grand National to meet customer demand.

The idea of reopening the plant emerged out of the need that GM had to build high-quality and profitable small cars and the need Toyota had to start building cars in the United States, a requirement due to the possibility of import restrictions by the U. S. Congress.

A sea change in how GM would market and build cars in the future, the 1984 reorganization was intended to streamline the process and create greater efficiencies ; the reverse actually occurred.

Combining the nameplate divisions, Fisher Body, and GM Assembly into two groups, C-P-C ( Chevrolet, Pontiac, Canada ) to build small cars and B-O-C ( Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac ) to build large cars, the effort was subsequently criticized for creating chaos within the company.

In 1987, Smith chose to have GM enter in the first World Solar Challenge race and he hired AeroVironment to build a winning solar-electric vehicle.

According to Motor Trend, " The Impact is precisely one of those occasions where GM proves beyond any doubt that it knows how to build fantastic automobiles.

In 1986 GM financed the British Ilmor firm to build a competitor to the DFX in American Indy car racing.