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Anger among labor-union members could flare up during the next few weeks, as the United Auto Workers begin negotiating new contracts for 459,000 workers at Ford and General Motors. If bargaining breaks down this year, the U.A.W. is likely to choose Ford as its primary strike target. Reason: the company, which passed GM last year with earnings of $3.3 billion, is now Detroit's most profitable automaker. Even if those negotiations proceed smoothly, however, there are other signs that labor's restiveness is slowly increasing, despite the decline of U.S. union membership from 20.1 million...
Accordingly, the chairman announced, and Chrysler advertisements subsequently declaimed, that the owners of some 60,000 affected cars built between July 1985 and the end of 1986 would get two extra years -- or 20,000 additional miles -- on their auto warranties. Another 40 customers whose cars were damaged during the test-driving period will receive new vehicles...
Well, that was five years ago. Rather than becoming the highly successful purveyor of tireless, reliable welders, assemblers and heavy lifters for the auto industry, aerospace and other industrial concerns, robotics today is an industrial accident victim, crippled by a two-year slump. Sales of U.S. robots are expected to decline from an anemic $580 million in 1986 to about $400 million this year, miles below those rosy billion-dollar projections. The number of manufacturers that make robots and related equipment dropped from 328 last year to 300 this year...
While filming The Color of Money and Top Gun, he proved a quick study in the pool hall and the cockpit. Now Tom Cruise, 24, has shifted gears again to test his learning curve on the auto racetrack. Cruise took the wheel of a Nissan 300 ZX turbo sports car last week while making his pro circuit racing debut at the Road Atlanta race course in Braselton, Ga. His wife of two months, Actress Mimi Rogers, cheered from the pit. So did his new pal and Money co-star, Paul Newman, 62, a veteran race-car driver who later took...
...steady growth and now has three large general stores, one bank, high school, drugstore, hardware, harness and furniture stores, millinery store, meat market, two hotels, restaurant, two farm implement houses, photograph gallery, undertaker, opera house and lodge hall, telephone exchange, two poolrooms, barbershop, two livery barns, one auto livery, blacksmith and machine shop, newspaper, three elevators, lumberyard and three coal yards, feed mill, creamery and flour mill and two dray lines...