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Harvard Captain Mayling Birney scored the team's sole two points...
...thought we were warmed up," Birney said. "We compete on the same level [as Cornell] so it was definitely a victory...
...Saturn's biggest challenges will be to turn a profit, even in the long run. "Nobody makes money on small cars," says Maryann Keller, an analyst for the investment firm Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney. "Saturn's no different from anybody else. The Japanese certainly don't make money on small cars." In most cases, those models serve as loss leaders for the larger, more option-loaded vehicles and to boost the average fuel-efficiency of an automaker's total fleet in order to meet U.S. government standards. But GM president Lloyd Reuss contends that Saturn will make a profit...
...With 1987 sales of $102 billion, GM remains 41% larger than Ford. Auto experts say GM could rebound sharply with its planned line of stylish front-wheel-drive cars called the GM- 10 series. "General Motors is waking up," says Auto Analyst Maryann Keller of Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney. "Ford is going to face tough competition in the 1990s...
Anxiety was especially high in Detroit, where automakers feared the crash could deal a new blow to car sales, which are already slumping. Maryann Keller, a prominent auto analyst with Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney, a Manhattan-based investment firm, predicted that U.S. sales of cars and trucks would fall about 15% next year, to 9.5 million vehicles. One reason for her gloomy forecast, she said, was that the loss of wealth caused by the stock- market decline would have a "significant effect on consumer confidence and the ability to spend...