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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baltimore, Carter stopped first at the home of Mrs. Genitha Rhyne in a predominantly black neighborhood. CETA workers had weatherproofed the house, and a solar unit for heating water had been installed with a $9,500 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. "This ought to save you money," Carter told Mrs. Rhyne. Then he assured a group of neighborhood residents: "Our country is determined to win the energy war. The people here on East Biddle Street can help me. Do you agree?" The crowd roared its support. Predicting that similar solar units would eventually...
Early last week evidence of the company's woes increased. Chrysler announced that another 4,600 workers had been laid off, bringing the total to 23,800, nearly a quarter of its normal blue-collar force. Chrysler also reported that, partly to save money, it was pulling out of a proposed joint venture with a Taiwan company to produce trucks. And lacocca disclosed that the company was considering dramatic cash rebates to customers of up to $500 a car; the aim would be to clear its staggering factory stockpile of nearly 80,000 unsold vehicles, valued at just under...
...Chrysler appears to have one hope: to stay solvent in any way possible until lacocca, who is to auto sales what Patton was to tank warfare, can bring forth the cars to save the company. He will need help-and not just from Washington. The United Auto Workers rejected his plea for a wage freeze, but delegates from its Chrysler council agreed to reconsider making concessions once the UAW agrees to a new three-year contract with GM and Ford. Said UAW President Douglas Fraser: "We'll take into consideration whatever is needed for the survival of Chrysler Corp...
...rivers. In addition, productivity will be higher: 1.78 bbl. of synthetic oil from each ton of coal, vs. 1.26 bbl. at present. As soon as that plant is finished next February, construction will start near by on Sasol III. Once the three plants are in operation, they will save an estimated $400 million a year in foreign exchange and produce about...
...Harvard fares pretty well, because she uses it only for background: dropping names of buildings and alumni, reminiscing about sneaking a feel in an Eliot House room or necking on the steps of Briggs Hall. The Harvard name may sell a lot of books, but it won't save the story...