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...cars, offers 25% better fuel economy than conventional engines. Installing a diesel has about the same results as trimming 1,000 Ibs. from one of GM's largest cars. The company, which began offering the engine as an option on some Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs in 1977, expects to sell 190,000 diesel-powered cars and light trucks this year, or about 4% of all GM autos. Barring further Government interference, the com pany expects to expand production of diesels throughout the coming decade...
This year Germany's 110 U.S. car dealers expect to sell about 20,000 imports from America, more than in the previous eight years all together. Auto-Becker of Düsseldorf, the country's largest U.S. dealer, is spending $6 million to expand its showroom and hopes to sell 2,000 cars, up from 850 in 1978 and only 250 in 1977. "It is the In thing to own an American-made car now," explains Helmut Becker, sales manager for the firm. Adds Peter Baumgarten, a GM salesman in Munich: "West German prosperity has increased the size...
...regime tirelessly proclaims that it will never again sell the 5.5 million bbl. per day that made prerevolutionary Iran the second largest oil producer in the 13-member OPEC cartel. On the other hand, the country's strife-battered economy desperately needs the hard foreign money that petroleum brings in. Since the Khomeini government has not yet figured out what its revenue needs will be, NIOC has been unable to gauge how much oil it will have to pump. In the uncertainty, Iranian authorities have been grabbing projected export figures out o the air, with semiofficial guesstimate ranging from...
Finally, a very recent example, the Burroughs Corporation, which had in the past been selling computers to the government, was asked in the form of a shareholder resolution from a number of church groups to stop selling anything to the government, and they responded by saying they would not invest further in South Africa at all, and they would not knowingly sell either products or sales and service to any organization that was involved in oppressive work...
...third question, which the ACSR has wrestled with, and which I have wrestled with as well, is, should we sell the stock? I think the answer to that question should be no. And the reasons are, or among the reasons are the following...