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...first no one minded Abboud's stormy leadership of First Chicago after he took over the nation's ninth largest bank in 1975. First Chicago had accumulated a backlog of bad loans. With what one bank official termed his "one-man-band" style, Abboud attacked the problems with decisive speed. His aggressive style was seen, for example, when he outmaneuvered the bigger Chase Manhattan Bank to secure the first loan ($8 million) by an American bank to the People's Republic of China...
...City Council subcommittee will recommend Monday the hiring of an ombudsman and additional staff for the Cambridge Rent Control Board, in an effort to ease communications problems and reduce a backlog of pending cases...
...most dramatic gains of all have come in the company's bulging commercial order book. Production was stepped up 47% during 1979 in the company's main commercial manufacturing plants at Everett and Renton. But the backlog of unfilled orders has nonetheless swelled from $11 billion at the end of 1978 to some $18 billion now. New Boeings are being wheeled out of production hangars at a rate of 28 a month, a breathless clip that is more than three times the pace of rival McDonnell Douglas. With commercial orders overflowing and the cruise contract now in hand...
...Detroit's more fuel-efficient offerings that at one point buyers of General Motors' new X cars had to wait four to six months for delivery, and Chrysler Corp.'s popular Dodge Omnis and Plymouth Horizons were being sold before they reached the showrooms. The order backlog for Volkswagen's Pennsylvania-built diesel Rabbit remains long. But nowhere is the rush to gas sippers more evident than among the imports. While the overall sales of the U.S. auto firms have plunged, foreign makes are booming-so much so that as a group they have moved ahead...
...trips under 500 miles and better suited to shorter European distances. Except for the planes that it sold to Eastern two years ago, Airbus has yet to crack the U.S. or Canadian market. The battleground is spreading to the Middle East and North Africa, but with an astonishing backlog of almost $20 billion in orders, Boeing is still way ahead...