Word: gm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make concrete blocks. But Barden had contacts at General Motors, which was eager to get back into the area (it had shut down in South Africa in response to an international campaign against apartheid). After Nujoma visited the U.S. early this year, a deal was struck. Barden will become GM's sole distributor in Namibia. GM will ship 818 cars, vans and trucks there. Barden is building a $19 million plant, expected to be running in January, to convert them from left-hand to right-hand drive, and later to do the same for other vehicles to be sold throughout...
...Elsewhere, Isiah Thomas' role as GM-as-savior lasted only until it became apparent he would not be allowed to buy the team. His departure to a career as an NBC analyst is less a blow to the NBA as it is to a bright young Toronto Raptors franchise that will now probably see its best players, Damon Stoudamire and Marcus Camby, look for greener courts in the lower...
...bridge what Portman described as their "fundamental philosophical divide." Rubin argues that giving citizens authority over the IRS "raises very serious issues of accountability and conflict of interest." In other words, as another top Administration official put it, "you don't want IRS agents reporting to the chairman of GM." Even if you set aside those concerns, adds Rubin, "a private-sector board that meets once a month is very unlikely to be effective...
...this is a very different Tribe than the one that made opposing pitchers cry like little boys in 1995. Since then, GM John Hart has subtracted big bashers Albert Belle and Paul Sorrento...
...Burney 5; GM-Pagliarlo...