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Chrysler. The 1970s energy crisis left Detroit's third-largest automaker almost out of gas. The company was slow to convert to fuel-efficient small cars and faced increasingly tough opposition from both the Big Two and Japan; by mid-1979, Chrysler had accumulated nearly $500 million in losses...
To economists, it is a phenomenon outside the realm of all historical experience. To American workers and businessmen, it is a malignant force that destroys jobs and profits. To Government policymakers, it is a vexing dilemma that stirs impassioned pleas for protectionism. Gargantuan and still growing, the U.S. trade deficit...
President Reagan telephoned Nunn to warn that his proposal would disrupt NATO at a time when the allies had just deployed controversial intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Secretary of State George Shultz traveled to the Hill to cajole key members. Also making pleas to Senators were ambassadors from West Germany, Britain...
Pleas to my superintendent's sense of hygiene failed. Then two days ago, I got into the shower. Instead of being greeted by my old friend drawn together in a "V" at the pleats by the sticky gook, I found a brand-new curtain spread majestically across the opening. I...
The smell of fire and death was almost too much to bear, and an anguished Prime Minister Indira Gandhi pulled her sari over her mouth and nostrils. She stopped in Bombay and in town after town outside the city, comforting victims and listening to pleas for protection. "This is not...