Word: goode
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chairman Lee lacocca had some good news for his 16 fellow Chrysler directors. Before they gathered for their regular monthly meeting, he had received a call from Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, who told him that the suffering No. 3 automaker was going to get the Government aid that it had been seeking since August. Nor would the assistance be chintzy. The Carter Administration had decided to back a federal loan guarantee of $1.5 billion, which was twice what Miller had indicated he would support only last September and a full $500 million more than the company had asked...
...Chrysler does stand a good chance of raising the $1.5 billion that it needs to get its loan guarantee in other ways. Three likely sources of funds...
...company targets was especially ill-timed, since many of his energy measures seem at last to be moving through Congress. Said one Energy Department official: "I can't believe Carter's pulling this stuff. His rhetoric can't do any good, and it could do real harm." The House and Senate windfall profits tax bills will soon go to a conference committee; compromise legislation to form the Energy Mobilization Board is on the verge of being worked out; and the Senate now seems ready to approve the creation of the Energy Security Corporation, which is to spur...
...other deadly sins either -particularly avarice. The ranch house could pass for the Southfork Hilton, and it must take a tanker and a half to fuel all those Mercedes in the driveway. The lovely Ewing ladies flop around the house in designer dresses, and when the good ole boys go hunting, they don't pile into a pickup. They whir away in a helicopter...
...Hagman) is carrying on the tradition by cheating everyone within howdyin' distance. After much conniving, he finally ran Brother Gary (David Ackroyd) off the spread, but then Gary is a no-account drunk and gambler who probably got what he deserved anyway. Young Bobby (Patrick Duffy) is the good brother, comparatively speaking, but even he has a few black marks against...