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Despite its almost incomprehensible size, the business of General Motors could always be summed up in one word: wheels. Less than 4% of its 1983 sales of $74.6 billion came from other businesses. A major drawback to such single-mindedness is that GM has few other earnings sources to keep the company profitable during sales slumps like the one in 1980-82. Now wiser after that downturn and flush with some $9 billion in cash, GM managers have been cruising industrial parks looking for takeover candidates...
...commute that physics today requires, scientists agree, is a definite drawback...
...these delegates to name me a single state south of the Mason-Dixon line or west of the Mississippi River that Walter Mondale can carry," says Hart Adviser Patrick Caddell. "Their eyes widen with fright. They can't name a single one." The pitch has just one drawback: it is not clear that Hart would do much better. Exit polls in the North Carolina and Ohio primaries revealed voters defecting to Reagan at almost the same rate if Hart gets nominated. Darden's polls reflect that Hart is no more able to be elected in the South than...
Gelb had fewer reservations about the j.v., citing as the squad's major drawback its lack of practice together. "Some boats just feel like they re right," he said. "this boat feels right...
...Junior's other problems are more visible. Dealers and users alike complain about its toylike appearance, its Chiclet-shaped keys, the built-in design barriers that make it difficult to expand the machine's memory or attach extra disc drives. But its biggest drawback has been price. In the market for home computers, where most machines sell for under $300, even the stripped-down $669 version of the PCjr seems overpriced. "For its level of performance," says William Bowman, chairman of Spinnaker, a leading software publisher, "it is simply the most expensive machine on the market." Although...