Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company held at the Waldorf a generation ago. Said Thomas J. Peters, a management consultant and co-author of the best-selling book In Search of Excellence: "This show is pathetic in the deepest sense of the word. GM does not have a p.r. problem, it ; has a car problem." Peters and other detractors maintain that consumers have been turned off by GM's lack of innovation and its look-alike designs, which have made it hard to tell a Chevrolet Celebrity from the more expensive Buick Century...
Although last year was tough for all American automakers, GM fared especially poorly. While GM car sales in the U.S. fell some 21%, from 4.7 million in 1986 to 3.7 million in 1987, Ford sales declined only 1%, to 2 million cars. In just one year, GM's U.S. market share shrank from 41% to 37%, while Ford's grew from 18% to 20%. Moreover, by earning more on each car, Ford continued to rack up bigger profits than its much larger rival. Through the first nine months of 1987, GM earned $2.7 billion on revenues of $75.4 billion...
...Cambridge Fire Department responded at 11:34 p.m. Monday to the fire in the venerable eatery with one squad car, three engines, one ariel tower and one rescue unit, said Lieutenant John O'Leary of the Cambridge Fire Department...
...Bennett was driving his 1950 Chevrolet from Mississippi to New Orleans. As he entered Louisiana, he was run off the road -- "something like Easy Rider" -- by two white men in a pickup truck. When Bennett got out, the men apologized, saying that since he was driving such an old car, they assumed he was a "nigger." A few weeks later as he was driving the same Chevy with Mississippi license plates north to Harvard Law School, a group of college-age kids passed him on a Connecticut highway, threw a Coke bottle at his car, and yelled, "Go back...
...Look for the truth of a case with your own eyes," he decided during 20 years as a California judge. When a driver claims his car couldn't go over 35 m.p.h., his Honor-on-the-spot takes it out for a spin. What did a policeman see through the keyhole? To find out, Wapner goes and takes a peek. This volume hardly qualifies as a scholarly treatise (Chapter 10 is titled "Under ( the Robes"). But readers seeking Wapner's piquant observations and offbeat tales of life in the legal lane won't sue for failure to deliver...