Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about U.S. industry's competitive strength. In the third quarter of this year, according to a poll of 548 large companies by the Wall Street Journal, average aftertax profits were up by 21%, compared with the same period last year. Airlines and the steel industry posted big increases; General Motors' net income rose by 31% to $528 million, its highest quarterly earnings ever...
Riccardo says he recruited Iacocca because Chrysler "needed additional firepower." While Ford and General Motors are both enjoying robust sales and profits, Chrysler is in the midst of its worst year since 1975, when it lost $260 million. The company lost $158.5 million in the third quarter alone, and its full-year deficit could reach $250 million. On the plus side, Chrysler in August sold its European automotive assets to France's Peugeot-Citroën in a deal that included $230 million in cash. Riccardo has announced that Peugeot-Citroën coughed up the $230 million this...
Beyond its immediate marketing problems, Chrysler faces a more general need to change directions. Alone of the Big Three, the company has never really nurtured a specific vision of the kinds of consumers it hoped to reach. Its customers tend to be older, less affluent and more conservative than those of Ford or General Motors. The Omni/Horizon, Detroit's first front-wheel-drive car, is a promising breakthrough, but Chrysler still faces a changing marketplace with limited financial resources...
...language or quirk of lore seems to have escaped his attention. Now he displays his wit and erudition in an extravagant three-volume work that has no precedent and is not likely to have successors. The Annotated Shakespeare has no restrictions; it suits the actor and the scholar, the general reader and the child. Its pictures are copious but never merely decorative. Some 4,200 illustrations compare ancient productions with those of Laurence Olivier and Marlon Brando. Woodcuts from Holinshed's Chronicles, which Shakespeare ransacked for his plots, jostle with faded maps and new costume designs for the Stratford...
...dimly perceived paradise, the Watership Down of the title. In time they are aided by a delightfully loony seagull (whose wonderful vocal characterization is supplied by the late Zero Mostel), who acts as scout and air arm in the climactic struggle against the fascist warren of the evil General Woundwort. Along the way there are troubles with the dogs, cats and humans of a nearby farm, some semimystical encounters with the Black Rabbit (death), not to mention such mundane problems as snares and hrududus (rabbitese for motor vehicles...