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...huge loss in the second quarter was a shock for a company used to steady profits. Nevertheless, GM's vast financial resources should enable it to glide relatively easily over the current bumps. The company still has a massive $40 billion six-year capital-spending program. The money will pay for the development of a new GM car every six months until 1985. Following next spring's J-car, the sporty Chevrolet Camaros and Pontiac Firebirds will be down-sized in 1982. Then in the 1983 model year GM will introduce a front-wheel-drive family car that...
Failure to synchronize on scoring opportunities hindered the Harvard effort. The icewomen would work the puck into a corner and pass it beautifully in front of the cage--only to watch it glide across the ice because no one had been ready...
...Philadelphia, meanwhile, everyone has begun to listen to Erving. A soaring magician who could seemingly leave the floor at midcourt and glide like a bird of prey to the backboard, he joined the 76ers from the A.B.A. for a record $3.5 million in 1976. But Erving found an overtalented team of prima donnas who were loathe to give him the ball and shunned him off-court as well...
...American Education and the chairman of the special committee overseeing the implementation of Barths's theories, says educators are already considering more drastic options such as "putting more (students) to work and adding some sort of academic component to the work environment," to deal with adolescents who now glide through high school with second-grade reading levels and 50 per cent attendance records...
...landed in the late afternoon in Walmar, Minnesota, a refreshing stop after the dry-rot outposts of the Plains. Walmar seemed typical of those clean, secure, Main Street towns that appear nestled in a green effulgence when you glide eastward over the Missouri. A short, 40 mile hitch by road took me to Flying Cloud Airport, just outside of Minneapolis, where I unrolled a sleeping bag and spent the night...