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...third-largest automaker almost out of gas. The company was slow to convert to fuel-efficient small cars and faced increasingly tough opposition from both the Big Two and Japan; by mid-1979, Chrysler had accumulated nearly $500 million in losses, as well as the industry's largest backlog of unsold vehicles. Chairman Lee Iacocca, hired shortly after being fired as president of Ford, went to Washington with pleas for aid that in December 1979 netted Chrysler $1.5 billion in loan guarantees. The controversial bailout proved to be a good investment. Three weeks ago, Chrysler reported a record...
Honecker was apparently trying to get rid of political dissidents, church activists and malcontents, as well as to clear the backlog of applications of people who wanted to be reunited with their families in the West. For those who did not succeed in leaving or who have participated in the country's fledgling peace movement, new restrictions have been imposed. Sixty thousand East Germans, most of them youths, have had their identity cards confiscated and must now apply for permission to travel anywhere outside the cities in which they live...
...NYNEX, the holding company for phone operations in New York and most of New England, acknowledged to the FCC in March that service to New York City's corporate customers has declined, but said they intend to bring it back to normal levels by July. With a backlog of 20,000 orders, there is now a wait of up to six weeks for high-volume discount wide-area telecommunications service (WATS) lines and 800 numbers, vs. five to 15 days last year...
...lost an ear when space funding ran into trouble recently," Tanabaum said. Since the Space Shuttle has dominated the NASA budget over the past several years, "leading to a backlog of other high quality programs...
...business is gruesome enough: an assembly-line crematorium that makes up in volume what it cuts in price. But Harbor Lawn Mount Olive Mortuary, Cemetery and Crematory in Costa Mesa, Calif., is accused of even grislier practices. To handle its backlog of bodies, former employees claim, the mortuary crammed corpses five at a time into gas ovens built for one. The jumbled ashes were allegedly dumped into 30-gal. trash cans. Then, says Bob Kilburn, a funeral refrigeration-supply manufacturer who installed a cooler at Harbor Lawn three years ago, "they'd scoop up ashes with a pail...