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...show that their growth rings, widely separated for more than a century, began narrowing in the 1950s and '60s, a sign of impaired growth. Researchers initially blamed severe climatic conditions, like the near drought of 1976. Today suspicion focuses on environmental pollution, particularly the acid rain caused by auto and industrial emissions...
...Beginning this spring, the Big Three automakers will give executives their first bonus checks since 1979. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler expect record total profits of about $6.5 billion in 1983, a more than 13-fold increase from $475 million in 1982. At present, many auto executives are taking home less than they earned five years ago. GM Chairman Roger Smith, for example, made $548,634 last year, compared with a salary of $240,000 and a bonus of $590,000 in 1978, when he was an executive vice president. But in early spring, Smith is likely...
...agency's 3-2 vote, which will become final after a 60-day period for public comment, opens the way for the partners to begin producing the cars late next fall. Experts look for the new auto, already dubbed the Toyolet by Detroit wags, to resemble Toyota's redesigned 1984 Corolla, which sells for some...
ENGAGED. Caroline, 26, Princess of Monaco, elder daughter of the reigning Prince Rainier III; and Stefano Casiraghi, 23, playboy son of a wealthy Italian industrialist; in Monaco. The Dec. 29 wedding date was announced 15 months after Caroline's mother, Princess Grace, died following an auto accident on the Côte d'Azur, France. Caroline will be married for the second time, Casiraghi for the first...
...voice of a developing conscience and dared to point out the lack of adequate safety measures and quality controls in a plutonium-recycling plant where she was employed. This facility was owned by a corporate giant (Kerr-McGee) working under a Government contract, and Silkwood died in an auto accident on her way to show a New York Times reporter supposed documentary evidence of her charges. Thus, the possibility that someone may have murdered her in order to silence her has occurred to many on the left and among feminists, who were quick to claim Silkwood for their own. Sooner...