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...What the reader sees on Monday...is going to be the product of quite a lot of debate and discussion,” Reason said...
...more tailored designs, added soundproofing and other niceties. The Big Three have also revved up performance by reviving rear-wheel drive and adding smarter transmission systems that can automatically adapt to driving conditions. "At the end of the day, the best car wins, so we've got to have product out there that not only matches the competition but exceeds it," says Gary Cowger, president of GM North America...
...overhauls its product lineup, GM is also improving financially. Although the company has relied heavily on buyer incentives to hold on to its 28% market share, it is still turning a profit. In 2002 GM earned $1.7 billion on sales of $187 billion. By keeping production costs in check and reducing its pension liability with a more risk-averse portfolio, GM impressed investors enough to end 2003 with its stock price up 37%. GM also boasts the highest productivity of the Big Three, requiring 36.7 worker-hours to build a vehicle, compared with nearly 40 at Ford, according...
...comes down to product," says Dieter Zetsche, Chrysler Group's CEO. "You can't cost-cut your way to prosperity." Nor can you price-cut forever, which has been the strategy the Big Three have relied on to keep the metal moving. Consumers have always been willing to pay more for cool design and a hot car. This year, at least, Detroit will give them that opportunity. --With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit and Dody Tsiantar/New York
Burnett's fandom is apt. As much salesman as entertainer, he turned reality-TV product placements into an art form (there are, he says, some 40 in The Apprentice). At heart, The Apprentice is a love letter from Burnett--a naturalized American from Britain--to Yankee capitalism. "The whole world takes America's charity," he says, "and that money is created through entrepreneurs." Survivor, with its tension between group effort and look-out-for-number-onemanship, has always been a metaphor for the corporate jungle. The Apprentice uses the business world as a metaphor for that metaphor. (Lest anyone miss...