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...fierce ambition. She graduated from Wellesley, married Howard ("Bo") Gray, a black New York City banker, and earned a degree from the Harvard Business School in 1979. After considering more than 30 job offers, she accepted one as the executive assistant to Agee at Bendix, a conglomerate based in Southfield, Mich. Cunningham moved to Michigan while her husband remained in New York. The couple later divorced...
...give up on nuclear power [Feb. 13] is cowardice. It is running away from the problem. We need nuclear power as part of a balanced energy policy. Our challenge is to be creative and strong enough to find a solution to the current obstacles. Stephen V. Gilmore Southfield, Mich...
American Motors (1982 sales: $2.9 billion). The Southfield, Mich.-based company, 46.4% owned by France's Renault, has rolled to a 2.5% market share on the strength of its Alliance subcompact. That showing puts AMC vehicles ahead of those produced in the U.S. by once fashionable Volkswagen, which now accounts for just 1.3% of domestic demand for American-made cars. AMC, counting on a resurgence of demand for four-wheel-drive vehicles, has invested $250 million in a new line of Jeeps that are smaller than previous models...
...denouement to one of the dirtiest, sloppiest, most wasteful takeover battles in U.S. corporate history. At its height, the contest was an unseemly spectacle of "cannibals gorging on one another," in the apt metaphor of Television Commentator Bill Moyers. Last week it ended with a whimper. In meetings at Southfield, Mich., and Morristown, N.J., shareholders of Bendix Corp. and Allied Corp. formally approved the merger of their companies. There was scarcely any dissent, but there was some sober reminiscing. Allied Chairman Edward L. Hennessy Jr., 54, said of the torturous maneuvering leading to the $2.3 billion deal...
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