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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With all the fanfare complete, lacocca gave out the news: after 27 months and $3.1 billion of losses, Chrysler had made a profit of $12 million during the second quarter. Quipped lacocca: "With our second quarter profits, we too might make a tender offer for Conoco. What the hell, everybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Days of Glory | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Although $12 million will not go far in solving Chrysler's massive financial problems, the small profit represents a significant improvement over last year's second quarter, when the company lost a stunning $536 million. Skeptical observers, however, wondered whether Chrysler's black ink was a demonstration of the company's improving health or just the outcome of some fancy financial footwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Days of Glory | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...other major auto companies also made money in the second quarter. Ford last week reported a narrow $60 million profit, which was a relief after its $439 million loss in the first quarter of the year. General Motors, the only American automaker to earn money during the first three months of 1981, is expected to announce even better results for the second quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Days of Glory | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...cars, but at some point they will be forced to take them off the road. The new voluntary restrictions on Japanese auto exports should also eventually help the sale of American models. But it may be a while before lacocca will be able to repeat last week's profit announcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Days of Glory | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...computer and genetic-engineering industries, companies actively raid each other's employment rolls. Says Art Young, corporate benefits manager of Hewlett Packard, the electronics firm: "Everyone's concerned about losing people." Hewlett Packard's answer is a program that puts 10% or so of its pretax profits into a long-term profit-sharing plan that pays out fully to workers only after they are on the job for 13 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Handcuffs | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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