Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bags must be installed in 10% of 1987-model American cars, and in all new U.S. cars by 1990, Most experts expect the auto companies to opt for the $40 automatic seat belt over the more costly air bag ($320 by Dole's reckoning; $800 according to Detroit). She also announced that the Government would launch a $40 million annual campaign, half of it funded by the auto industry, to promote mandatory seat-belt legislation. If states containing two-thirds of the population pass such laws before April 1989, the Government will revoke its order...
...Japanese businessmen have been poking around Silicon Valley, trying to learn about good old-fashioned American entrepreneurialism. And competition among factories in Japan is often fierce.) Somehow the Japanese vision of happy workers, loyally singing company songs as they program their robots, is hard to imagine in a Detroit auto plant...
While many Americans are sold on high speed and racy lines, some others still want a car big enough to take the whole family on vacation. Because Detroit has been limiting production of fullsize cars, dealers, especially in the South, complain they cannot get enough of them. Says Dick Strauss, a Richmond Ford dealer who is nearly sold out of the $14,500 Crown Victoria, the successor to the Ford LTD: "Preferences haven't changed. The standard-size car is still the most desired, although not everyone can afford it." Tampa Dodge Dealer Hubert Brooks is also squeezed. Says...
...sent in. (The new system for buying tickets will be determined by local stadium owners. It will go into effect, at the latest, by the time tickets for the early-August New York City engagement go on sale.) Sullivan also confirmed concert dates in ten additional cities, including Detroit, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Ticket sales there, as well as the commercial longevity of Victory, will determine whether the public has turned its back on the Jacksons or whether Michael, with the help of some fast business footwork and some dazzling family showmanship, has managed to turn them around again...
...Schnelli Deli in Detroit, blacks, who have a higher incidence of lactose sensitivity than whites, are among the best customers...