Word: gm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three auto exports from the U.S. and Canada to Mexico for the first quarter reached 9,925 units, compared with 9,479 exported during all of 1993. Chrysler, Ford and GM are expecting to export a combined 55,000 cars and trucks to Mexico...
...first four months of 1994, according to the Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, up 13% from last year's pace. General Motors alone eliminated 17,000 jobs in the first quarter even though it plans to boost output 5.4% this year. (Such labor cutbacks have not stopped GM, Ford and Chrysler from raising prices on popular models like the Chevrolet pickup and the Jeep Grand Cherokee.) Overall, the hourly output of Detroit's workers has been increasing at an annual rate of 6.5%, while wages have grown just...
...Trumpets has an offhand quality; it resembles an actor's phoned-in performance. There are also moments when Wills strains mightily to make a case, notably in the chapter on Perot. Wills argues that Perot, who built Electronic Data Systems into a multibillion-dollar enterprise before peddling it to GM, improved on the theories of two corporate legends who made salesmanship a near science: John Henry Patterson of National Cash Register and Thomas Watson of IBM. Perhaps so, but even by Wills' narrow definition of business leadership -- that it mostly has to do with selling -- someone like Bill Gates...
There was also the wonderful verbal war between Indianapolis Colts (as opposed to Baltimore CFL Colts!) GM Bill Tobin and Baltimore-based ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper...
...signed Otis Nixon and Dave Valle and got new GM Dan Duquette to end Blue Jay dominance...