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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Washington may have given Chrysler a reprieve and preserved jobs for its 137,000 employees in an election year, the action may be a dangerous example for a system in which the right to fail is as enshrined as the right to succeed. Moreover, if Chrysler cannot make a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Santa Calls on Chrysler | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

The measure, however, is far from a pure giveaway. For one thing, the loan guarantee is not a handout but simply the Government's pledge to reimburse private parties for the money, up to $1.5 billion, that they lend to Chrysler if the auto firm is unable to repay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Santa Calls on Chrysler | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Chrysler will be eligible for the federal guarantee only if it raises $2 billion on its own from sources specified by the legislation. From domestic banks, financial institutions and other creditors, for example, Chrysler must find $400 million in new loans that would not be covered by the Government'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Santa Calls on Chrysler | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

This wouldn't have happened if Mayor Daley were still alive." So Chicagoans console themselves when things go wrong, and last week, it is true, the late Richard J. Daley would scarcely have recognized his beloved city. A transit workers' strike stranded a million commuters and temporarily disrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Talking Too Tough at the Top | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Part of the reason was that Mayor Byrne talked too much. She had threatened to bring in strikebreakers if the drivers walked out. She called in the parties to the dispute and announced a settlement before it was actually made. Says a former aide to Daley: "He never called people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Talking Too Tough at the Top | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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