Word: detroit
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...Detroit automakers did not have bonuses under their Christmas trees, but big ones are on the way. Beginning this spring, the Big Three automakers will give executives their first bonus checks since 1979. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler expect record total profits of about $6.5 billion in 1983, a more than 13-fold increase from $475 million in 1982. At present, many auto executives are taking home less than they earned five years ago. GM Chairman Roger Smith, for example, made $548,634 last year, compared with a salary of $240,000 and a bonus...
...agency's 3-2 vote, which will become final after a 60-day period for public comment, opens the way for the partners to begin producing the cars late next fall. Experts look for the new auto, already dubbed the Toyolet by Detroit wags, to resemble Toyota's redesigned 1984 Corolla, which sells for some...
...Blood Institute has confirmed their doubts. The ambitious $24 million study, ten years in the making, found that about one in eight bypass patients would live just as long with drug treatment instead of surgery. "In the past we have tended to believe that the operation prolongs survival," says Detroit Cardiologist Thomas Killip, who helped direct the study. "Now we are more skeptical...
...Islanders 4. Detroit...
Cincinnati 17, Detroit...