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...down in quality-control groups to discuss ways to improve production and pass along moneysaving tips to plant managers. Last month, Ford Motor Co. Chairman Philip Caldwell flew to Norfolk to tell 946 union workers that the reason their plant has remained open is that it builds better quality pickup trucks than other Ford plants...
...rates. First they purchased utility issues, such as Arizona Public Service, Tucson Electric Power and Northern States Power. The borrowing costs of those companies will be declining, and that will help profits. Next they moved to housing-related stocks that would benefit if the lower interest rates encourage a pickup in homebuilding. Their favorites: Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific. Anticipating that consumer spending would increase, Rolland bought Sears, Roebuck and Co., MCA, Procter & Gamble and two drug companies, Syntex and American Home Products. Smaller, profitable airlines, which would benefit as travel increased in a healthier economy, also looked good, so Chemical...
...Fernando Ed, 35, paced in the balmy California night air and totted up the rewards of being a successful farmer. They included two Porsches, a Datsun, three four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, a redwood home perched on a hilltop in Northern California, a three-bedroom house with an outdoor Jacuzzi near the beach in Los Angeles and a custom-built vacation hideaway in Hawaii. Then he opened up a plastic bag and pinched out a sample of the crop that has made his fortune of nearly $1 million: marijuana...
...billion oil refinery, a $300 million petrochemical plant, a $2 billion polyethylene project, a $4 billion industrial chemicals plant, a $600 million iron and steel complex, and a $360 million plant to produce fertilizer pellets. In most of those industries, worldwide production gluts already abound, though a pickup in the global economy would help stimulate demand at least somewhat in consuming countries. Mean while, however, the Saudis have already been forced to cancel plans for a 225,000-ton-per-year aluminum smelter, and additional retrenchment may eventually prove unavoidable...
...damage inflicted on the franc springs mainly from an inflation rate that clings stubbornly around 14%, vs. 6.6% in the U.S. or 5.6% in West Germany. Even as French competitiveness on world markets has deteriorated, the pickup in industrial production promised by the Socialists has failed to materialize. More than 2 million French, 8.7% of the labor force, are unemployed, a rise of 15% since Mitterrand took office. Inevitably, the franc has come under attack as confidence in Socialist economic management has dwindled. Since March, France's central bank has spent about $8 billion to support its currency, leaving...