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...most businessmen and the excessive bravado of Iacocca," Riesman says, "there is a position of responsible corporate leadership." A recent article in the New Republic suggests that Iacocca's mythic managerial skills may be seriously overrated. The Wall Street Journal, Iacocca's longtime antagonist, recently called him the "Motor City's most famous motor mouth." On the subject of trade conflicts with the Japanese, he does in fact speak somewhat promiscuously. Says an ex-colleague from Ford, where Iacocca worked for 32 years: "He doesn't know when to shut...
...begun by the Japanese four years ago to head off stringent measures by Congress to protect Detroit's then bleeding auto industry. Helped by the protection and by their own new efficiencies, Detroit's automakers have revived, earning profits of $9.8 billion in 1984. One sign of prosperity: Ford Motor Co. last week distributed $360 million of its $2.9 billion of 1984 profits to 170,000 hourly and salaried workers at the company's U.S. operations, an average of $2,000 for each...
...Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich...
...speak like them because "I would never massacrate their language." And an organizer of the event said he liked it better this year than last because there were "more people and a better chance to conjugate." After awhile, the inebriated ear grows accustomed to tortured syntax, and all linguistic motor skills begin to dissipate. And the band plays...
Polio paralyzes its victims by killing off the spinal cord's motor-nerve cells, which control various muscles. In some cases, when muscles in the chest become too weak to function properly, polio victims need mechanical assistance simply to breathe. Though many of the polio victims who survive are left partly paralyzed, they often make dramatic progress. Muscles that had fallen slack begin to work again when healthy nerve cells sprout new connecting fibers and take over the work of cells ravaged by polio...