Word: detroits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Incumbents running for re-election -most of them are Democrats-start out with an enormous advantage. They already have trained staffs, are better known and can raise money more easily than their opponents. Says Detroit Pollster Robert Teeter: "Any incumbent Congressman who loses deserves it. "According to Political Scientist Vincent Naramore of St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vt., statistics indicate that incumbents have only a 10% chance of losing...
...decrease in violent crimes has been partly responsible. A walker in Central Park is as likely to be overrun by joggers as assaulted by muggers. New York has the fifth highest major crime rate among the ten largest cities in the nation, behind Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Detroit. Major crimes in New York decreased last year by 6.4%, perhaps because the potential victims have become a good deal smarter and more cautious. Apartment houses have installed closed-circuit TV and buzzer systems. In large office buildings, guards check identification passes...
...Peugeot will do nothing to reduce this year's losses-a fact that Wall Street was quick to appreciate. Although Chrysler's stock jumped after the announcement, it quickly fell back, closing the week at 12.5. But experts applauded the decision. Said Arvid Jouppi, a top Detroit analyst: "Chrysler's strategy is to become strong domestically and abandon the world market. I would rather have 15% of a strong company like Peugeot than overseas assets that were too heavy to bear...
...promising. Says Eastern's Borman: "If people start seeing us as a good replacement for the auto, business could go wild. That's the kind of market we're aiming for. We've taken on the ship and the train, but the private auto is the heavyweight championship." Detroit is not worried yet, but the summer of 1978 has proved that the air travel market can grow much bigger, and that the surest means to exploit it is through lower fares...
...investigation began in August of 1975 and was headed by Theodore Souris, a former Michigan Supreme Court justice who is now a senior partner in the prestigious Detroit law firm of Bodman, Longley, Bogle and Armstrong. The financial aspects of the probe were directed by Norman A. Bolz, partner in the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Before the probe ended, 500 interviews had been conducted, and 50 Ford executives, among many others, had been questioned, Iacocca learned of the dimensions of the probe only from friends and business associates who had been grilled...