Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cars. Last week, after an initial period of stonewalling, GM yielded. It made an offer for which no auto executive could recall a parallel: it will take back any 1977 Olds, Buick or Pontiac equipped with a Chevy engine and give the buyer credit for the full sales price, minus 8? for each mile driven, on the purchase of a new car of the same make. Thus if the price of a Chevy-engined Olds less mileage deductions comes to, say, $7,000, the buyer can give it back and get a new $7,000 Olds (this time fitted with...
...much for the problems of personnel: the talent of the newcomers on the plus side, the talent of the graduated veterans on the minus side. More important is the crucial matter of motivation...
...without William S. Paley? Archie Bunker should sooner be sans scowl, Kojak minus his shiny pate. True, last week the company's founder and guiding presence did say, as he promised last fall, that he would step down as chief executive officer May 11. Paley also named his successor: John David Backe, CBS's president, whom the chairman installed in October after firing Arthur R. Taylor (TIME, Oct. 25). But Paley will remain chairman and will still hold 6% of CBS's stock. He took care to tell shareholders at the annual meeting in Los Angeles, where...
...team's fortunes plummeted as the carnival went on. The only positive aspect of the giant slalom on Saturday was the absence of a fall by a Harvard skier, but this plus was more than offset by the minus that the top finish was a 41st by Phil Duff. "It was quite demoralizing," Hubbard said...
...field event people outscored their opponents," coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday, "but we were minus too many runners to do well in that department...