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...will have to travel far to top Trotman, a forward-thinking executive who launched the company on an ambitious global reorganization known as Ford 2000. Ford is a dead cinch to turn in record earnings this year. In the third quarter, profits climbed 64%, to $1.13 billion, and so far through the first nine months of 1997, the automaker has earned more than $5.1 billion on revenues of $112 billion. "Overall, the company is in good shape," says John Casesa, an analyst with Schroder Wertheim in New York City. "The family is happy with what it sees. The company...
...first part was a cinch: take the M60 from Ground Transportation to Manhattan. A short ride later, and there I was, on 125th Street and Lexington. Getting to 3rd Ave. and 45th Street from East Harlem? Piece of cake. Just transfer to a downtown bus, and look, there one is coming down Lexington now. OK, so the people on the bus gave me funny looks as I tucked my laptop between my feet and opened my complimentary Shuttle edition of the latest American Prospect: A Journal of the Liberal Imagination, but whatever; this is my public transportation...
...difficult-to-maneuver, hideous-to-look-at, cramped behemoths they once were. O.K., most are still resolutely unstylish, but virtually all have power steering, power brakes and automatic transmission. Some carry a rearview TV camera on the roof with a monitor on the dashboard to make parking a cinch. Fleetwood Enterprises' Bounder, the best-selling motor home in America, has a computer stand and prewiring for a satellite dish as standard features. There's more home in them too, with options for queen-size beds, glass showers, bathtubs, washer-dryers, TVs, VCRs, solar panels for heating, hardwood floors and granite...
...council's elections are not even maximizing the program's capabilities which can handle a variety of circumstances, Because of the nature of the program, last night's reconfigurations were a cinch, Klein said...
...cases, the S&P 500 fell during the 12 months immediately following those elections--by a whopping average of 12%, reports Logical Information Machines, a market-data firm based in Chicago. Obviously, the market misinterpreted something. Is today's surging market misinterpreting again? It's a cinch you shouldn't bank heavily on Wall Street's political handicapping. As always, they still have to play the game...