Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Detroit 5, Minnesota...
...Jersey 119, Philadelphia 116, OT Portland 106, New York 89 Atlanta 102, Cleveland 84 Phoenix 114, San Antonio 111, OT Kansas City 119, Detroit 112 Utah 117, Chicago 95 Houston 119, Milwaukee...
Other middle and top managers in Detroit are gaining handsomely. Some 5,800 GM executives will divide a bonus pool of $180 million, an average of $31,000 apiece. It will be the first GM bonus since 1979. Chairman Roger Smith's should bring his total compensation for the year to more than $1 million...
...While Detroit liked 1983, this year should be even better. Sales in January, usually slowed by bad weather, were up 41% from a year ago. That pushed the sales rate on an annual basis to 10.25 million vehicles, and auto executives are saying that 1984 sales of 10.5 million cars are possible. Last October they forecast sales of only 10 million. Indeed, Detroit's carmakers could earn as much as $9 billion this year. Even AMC is anticipating that it will make money. Said GM's Smith: "Our recovery could be even stronger than we've predicted...
...famed Back Bay neighborhood. The latest and most dramatic case in point is Copley Place, a $500 million shopping, office and hotel complex that opens this week. The development might have been another alien invader of the city, like such self-centered and gaudy projects as Renaissance Center in Detroit and Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. But surprisingly, Copley Place almost fits in. There seems enough of Boston's old civic mettle left to have forced a certain architectural civility upon the development...