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More specifically, the Cinderella company is GM Europe, a Zurich-based subsidiary that makes and sells 1.5 million West German-designed cars a year bearing the nameplates Vauxhall in the United Kingdom and Opel on the Continent. Last year GM Europe built fewer than half as many passenger cars as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Sides of a Giant: General Motors | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

GM Europe may not always have it so good. The company's managers express serious concern about growing competition from Japanese car companies, which are now gearing up major "transplant" factories as they did in the U.S. during the past decade. Auto analysts say the Japanese market share on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Sides of a Giant: General Motors | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

In his years away, apartheid has acquired a more presentable face. The humiliating restrictions of petty apartheid have largely faded away. A sizable black middle class has sprung up, bringing with it consumer power that has not escaped the notice of white merchants. "Buppies" live in handsome Soweto neighborhoods like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: At the Crossroads | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

In Paris last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said soothingly that "the Germans have no intention of provoking in the Europe of the future a discussion about frontiers" that would disrupt the Continent. But he again stopped short of saying Bonn has no territorial claims against Poland, insisting that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resurrecting Ghostly Rivalries | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

A 13-point line Super Bowl? A travesty. Pathetic. If the Bills were in this game--that is, if Ronnie Harmon hadn't been such a loser against the Browns--the 49ers would move to another continent. Jim Kelly is a god. Jim Kelly is a god...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: The King of Sports | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

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