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...Reagan plan for a Government-industry-labor "compact...
...something about the industry's malaise by attempting to put together a plan that would help get Detroit back on its feet, with aid and direction from Washington. It is tinkering with a proposal worked up late in the Carter Administration for the development of a three-way "compact" among industry, labor and Government to restore the health of the carmakers. In broad terms, the Reagan Administration aims to use a promise of a curb on Japanese imports as a carrot to get all of Detroit to accept the kind of changes in traditional ways of doing business that...
...Ford had to face one undeniable fact: even once popular fuel-efficient small cars are not selling. At the beginning of February, Chevrolet dealers had a 98-day supply of compact Citations, and Pontiac showrooms were backed up with 92-day inventories of the small front-wheel-drive Phoenix. Ford dealers were stuck with 100-day-plus backlogs on nine separate models ranging from the Mustang and Fairmont to the Mark VI. Sixty-day levels are considered ideal...
Epstein suggests that this age of sub-compact expectations has other causes...
...story proceeds in flashback us ing Salieri as narrator. The device impedes the dynamics of the play and some times makes the Viennese court seem like a cynically corrupted version of Grover's Corners. Early on, when Salieri is 16, he kneels in prayer and makes a Faustian compact with God. He vows to excel in virtue, magnify his talents and live his life as a tribute to his creator if only God will grant him fame...