Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capabilities, only slander remains as an effective political weapon. SWAT, ZIP and their cohorts hope that repetition and volume alone will be enough to make their outrageous charges into facts. We, at least, feel that they should not be able to get away with it. Christopher A. Ford '89 Ronald J. Granieri...
...vice president's aides said he would make some transition announcements this morning before meeting with former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, who recently wrote a report with bipartisan advice for the new president...
Once the producer of nearly 52% of all new cars sold in the U.S., GM saw its share slide to 46% in 1984, then drop to 36% today; Ford forged ahead from 19% in 1984 to 22%, and Chrysler climbed from 10% to 11%. Japanese automakers, who are rapidly opening U.S. plants, have boosted their share of the U.S. market from 18% to 26% in the same period...
...upbeat quarter does not guarantee a complete turnaround, however, especially since GM has not been saddled with the huge costs of retooling for new models. Says a top Ford executive: "They're on the way back. They're just not there yet." But GM's product-minded president is determined to win back customers with better-made and better-looking vehicles. Moreover, he hopes to get the cars from design tables to assembly lines in less than three years instead of the current five. Helping to speed the process and reduce costs is GM's decade-long, $50 billion investment...
Stempel is bringing to market a line known as the GM-10 series, which is designed to compete with Ford's cars for young families: the Taurus, best- selling midsize car in the U.S., and the Sable. The sporty GM-10s have debuted as two-door versions of the Olds Cutlass Supreme, Buick Regal and Pontiac Grand Prix; the four-door models are expected next fall. Already, one of them, the Chevrolet Lumina, is known inside GM as a "Taurus killer." But inasmuch as four-door cars make up 75% of U.S. auto sales, analysts wonder why GM first came...