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...proposed acquisition will not shake up the rankings in the $230 billion- a-year U.S. auto industry. For increasingly robust Chrysler (1986 profits of $1.4 billion on sales of $22.6 billion), the deal would merely add AMC's piddling .7% car market share to the bigger firm's 10.3%. That would still leave the merged company far behind No. 2 Ford (18%) and GM (39.6%). But the purchase will help Chrysler solve a pressing problem: its factories do not have the capacity to produce enough cars to meet demand. Chrysler had started easing that production crunch by contracting...
When the game was over, the Harvard players received plaques commemorating their championship. Their names were called over a loud speaker and they skated up to shake the hands of ECAC officials and smile for the cameras...
Such shirts are the most noted creation of British Designer Katharine Hamnett, who showed up at a 1984 London fashion-biz reception to shake hands with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sporting a T that had something rather pointed to say about the presence of Pershing missiles in Europe. "I didn't realize the effect wearing that T shirt would have on my reputation," the designer insists. The incident, well covered in the press, did make her a bit notorious, which was a novelty. She had, after all, already spent some time being one of the best designers in England...
Relations between Egypt and its unruly neighbor Libya are not the best. Just last month Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would shake the hand of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi only if it were "not booby-trapped." Last week relations got worse when five Libyan air-force men flew their American-built C-130 military cargo plane to Abu Simbel in southern Egypt and requested political asylum...
...glee. When he enters the courtroom, he grins at the audience and greets them by saying "Boker Tov," Hebrew for "good morning." He then listens without emotion to the chilling testimony against him, yawning and fiddling with his earphones while those on the stand weep. He even tried to shake the hand of one death camp survivor, who "without the slightest doubt" identified him as Ivan...