Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Detroit 4, Anaheim...
Anaheim 8, Detroit...
...cute, actually, how they came to be an item: following some small talk last year over a possible joint venture in Latin America or maybe Asia, Juergen Schrempp, 53, chairman of doughty Daimler-Benz, invited Chrysler chief Robert Eaton, 58, to spend some quiet time alone during the crowded Detroit Auto Show in January. Schrempp said he liked Chrysler a lot and suggested that maybe they should consider going...
...union that represents German autoworkers, whether the Americans and Canadians get seats on the board. Pending that, most workers seemed pleased. "I just hope my stock goes up and I can buy a Mercedes with my Chrysler discount," laughed an employee from Chrysler's Jefferson North assembly plant, on Detroit's gritty east side...
...there are doubts about the rightness of the fit, they center on the issue of the two corporate cultures. Chrysler's near-death experience has turned the company into a lean, profit-obsessed organization--short on bureaucracy but long on management talent. In the great Detroit tradition, pragmatism and margin protection can take precedence over quality when they are in conflict...