On July 23, GM announced its new Board of Directors: Dan Akerson, David Bonderman, Robert D. Krebs, Patricia F. Russo and Ed Whitacre ( GM Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer ).

" There has long been a lively debate about who is the strongest player of all ", wrote GM Robert Byrne in his New York Times column of Aug. 26, 1997.

Polgár " was unrecognizable in her first-round encounter with Viswanathan Anand ", wrote GM Robert Byrne in his New York Times column, " making more errors than she normally would in a dozen games.

Cronyn was also a cousin of Canadian-born theater producer, Robert Whitehead, and a first cousin of the Canadian-British artist Hugh Verschoyle Cronyn GM ( 1905 – 1996 ).

Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, indicated the European position toward GMO was thought of as " immoral " since it could lead to starvation in the developing world or wars, as seen in some famine-threatened African countries ( e. g., Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique ) that refuse to accept US aid because it contains GM food.

Robert Carl Stempel ( July 15, 1933 – May 7, 2011 ) was a Chairman and CEO of General Motors ( GM ).

* 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Nf3 ( 6. Ne2 will likely transpose to the Modern Variation ) 6 ... Bxc3 + 7. bxc3 d6 is the Hübner Variation, popularized by GM Robert Hübner in the late 1960s and ' 70s and utilised by Bobby Fischer in his world championship match with Boris Spassky in 1972 with great effect in game 5.

* Miguel Najdorf vs Robert Byrne, Buenos Aires 1964, King's Indian Defense, Classical / Petrosian Variation ( E93 ), 0 – 1 A key victory from the tournament where Byrne earned his GM title.

* Lobbied the board of General Motors ( GM ) " to take a more active role in monitoring the company, which may have been a factor in the GM board's ousting chairman Robert Stempel in 1992.

Mars, Inc. was signed as the team's primary sponsor, leaving Robert Yates Racing, as Interstate Batteries became a secondary sponsor and the team left the GM brands in favor of becoming Toyota's highest-profile team.

Additional original design elements were provided by an in-house design competition led by GM Vice President Robert Lutz.

* October 17 – The Game of the Century: 13-year-old Bobby Fischer beats GM Donald Byrne in the NY Rosenwald chess tournament.

" 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.

" British GM Nigel Short called Judit " one of the three or four greatest chess prodigies in history.

A simplified version of GM, called " GM Lite ", is used in mobile phones and other devices with limited processing power.

Sloan suggested that GM take the helm of Opel again for a two-year " probationary " period to see whether the economic conditions, then called " close to stagnation " in Germany, would improve.

In both of these forms, an arranger called a game master ( GM ) usually decides on the rules and setting to be used and acts as referee, while each of the other players plays the role of a single character.

In video RPGs many of the functions of a GM are fulfilled by the game engine, however some multi-player video RPGs also allow for a participant to take on a GM role through a visual interface called a GM toolkit, albeit with abilities limited by the available technology.

Compounding the problem for Oldsmobile and Buick was a styling mistake which GM called the " Strato Roof.

In addition, GM quickly stopped associating engines with particular divisions, and to this day all GM engines are produced by " GM Powertrain " ( GMPT ) and are called GM " Corporate " engines instead of GM " Division " engines.

In addition in the late ' 60s, GM directed their GM and Pontiac divisions to develop concept mini-cars called commuter car for urban drivers.

GM developed a gasoline-electric drive hybrid the XP-833 and Pontiac the X-1 a rear wheel mid engine car that was powered by a radical X-shaped aircraft type air-cooled two-stroke radial engine where the standard crankshaft was replaced by a unit called a Scotch yoke.

When General Motors left, and the GM plant was dismantled in 1998, all that remained was a " big box store mall " called The Plant.

However, unlike many GM executives, Sloan did not put Drucker on his blacklist for writing the 1946 book ; Drucker, in his new introduction for the 1990 republishing of Sloan's memoir, said, " When his associates attacked me in a meeting called to discuss the book, Sloan immediately rose to my defense.

Kelley called to offer DeLorean his choice of jobs in five divisions of GM.

Knudsen was the son of the former president of GM, William Knudsen, who was called away from his post to head the war mobilization production effort at the request of President Roosevelt.

On 3 November 2009, the GM board called off the Magna deal after coming to the conclusion that Opel and Vauxhall Motors was crucial to GM's global strategy.

Sierra followed up with a competitor dummy, a model it called " Sierra Stan ," but GM, who had taken over the impetus in developing a reliable and durable dummy, found neither model satisfied its needs.

David Norwood, British GM, in recalling Judit beating him when he was an established player and she was just a child, described her as, " this cute little auburn-haired monster who crushed you.

In his first official trade as GM, he shocked Giants fans by trading Matt Williams to Cleveland for what newspapers referred to as a ' bunch of spare parts ', with the negative reaction being great enough for him to have to publicly explain: " I didn't get to this point by being an idiot ...

Wang hired Ted Nolan as coach and Neil Smith as GM, but he fired Smith after a little over a month and replaced him with backup goaltender Garth Snow, who retired to accept the position.

On December 4, 2007, the Sixers fired Billy King and replaced him with Nets GM Ed Stefanski.

" GM gave him a Florida Cadillac franchise as a retirement gift, and DeLorean did in fact take over the presidency of The National Alliance of Businessmen, a charitable organization with the mission of employing Americans in need, founded by Lyndon Johnson and Henry Ford.

Drucker's career as a business thinker took off in 1942, when his initial writings on politics and society won him access to the internal workings of General Motors ( GM ), one of the largest companies in the world at that time.

The segment featured Blassie, his wife, Raw GM Eric Bischoff, who was about to allow 3 Minute Warning to attack him, until Austin and the Dudley Boyz stepped in.

This saw him enter into a feud with the anonymous GM of Raw, during which the GM cost him several matches.

The next night on Raw, it was announced that he had been traded to the Smackdown brand for SmackDown's CM Punk due to him destroying the Raw GM computer turning him face and ending the feud between the two.

Nader claims that GM responded to Nader's criticism of the Corvair by trying to destroy Nader's image and to silence him.

The UAW investigated, and they discovered that the judge held roughly $ 200, 000 in GM stock, which disqualified him from hearing any case involving GM.

On November 25, 2002, he became the youngest GM in the history of Major League Baseball when the Boston Red Sox hired him at the age of 28.

In 1910, Durant became financially overextended and banking interests assumed control, forcing him from management of GM.

Key was granted free agency for the last time on October 27, 1998 by Orioles GM Pat Gillick, the same GM who granted him the same conditions in Toronto in 1992.

In early March 1966, several media outlets, including The New Republic and the New York Times, reported that GM had tried to discredit Nader, hiring private detectives to tap his phones and investigate his past and hiring prostitutes to trap him in compromising situations.

In 1946, GM President Charles Wilson offered him the position of executive vice president — to be Wilson's right hand man — but Curtice declined, stating that he wished to see Buicks rolling again off the assembly line before he left the division.

Mets GM Steve Phillips then sent him to the Oakland Athletics on December 14 for LHP Mark Guthrie and RHP Tyler Yates.

GM awarded him a $ 600, 000 contract.