Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans are sharply scaling down their expectations. They are pulling in their purse strings. They are looking for more and more economy, utility and durability in the products that they buy. All of those trends are causing a major upheaval in the nation's most important industry, forcing Detroit's automakers to change sweepingly their sales strategy...
...sights more dramatically mirrored the alarming slump in the nation's most important industry in recent months than the seemingly endless rows of spanking new unsold Chrysler cars cramming Detroit's huge Michigan State Fairgrounds. Then, two weeks ago, in a desperate move to boost sales, Chrysler began temporarily offering cash rebates to buyers of its new models-and set the stage for what amounts to one of Detroit's rare full-dress fire sales. Within a week, Ford rolled out a rebate plan of its own, and now the industry's giant, General Motors...
...same time, the automakers' sales drive has picked up some surprising outside support. Dozens of companies, some of them suppliers of automotive parts, others located in the hard-hit Detroit area, are also paying rebates to their employees who buy new cars. Sperry and Hutchinson is offering 50,000 Green Stamps (nominal value: $125) to car-buying employees. Gulf + Western, Libby-Owens-Ford Co. and Budd Co., among others, are offering $100 sweeteners...
...counteroffer to be absorbed into a larger bank-holding company, but Sarakbi already holds enough tendered shares to block that deal when it comes to a stockholders' vote. So Community National officials are now seeking a permanent court injunction barring Sarakbi from buying any shares tendered. Bankers on Detroit's Fort Street, all too conscious of their own vulnerability, are fearful that the Arab might come up the winner...
...miniautobiography he offers thanks to helpful friends and models (among them: Hardy, Dylan Thomas, Frost, Yeats, Brecht, Kierkegaard, Goethe and Horace). Plato, however, rates a putdown ("I can't imagine anything/ that I would less like to be/ than a disincarnate Spirit"). So do the "nimble technicians" of Detroit ("Dark was the day when Diesel/ conceived his grim engine"), partly because they cannot be bothered to build "what sanity knows we need,/ an odorless and noiseless/ staid little electric brougham...