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...catalogue reads, "Add a fun and festive air to your holiday table. Our exclusive reindeer are handmade of iron. Set of two, $29.95." Why not add the weight of a small truck to your holiday table by buying an army of 66 iron reindeer? Or, for those who like the glitter of gold and the freshness of fruit, a collection of 200 pieces of gold-painted fruit? Or the gift that keeps on giving--50 years' worth of the Museum of Modern Art's 4-foot wide `Stendig' calendar. All from Crate and Brattle, 48 Brattle Street...
...starting to look healthier. The U.S. companies are being helped by improved products, a price advantage of 16% against Japanese rivals because of currency differences, and the fact that so far both European and Asian competitors have almost entirely missed the fastest-growing market segment of all: vans, trucks and sport-utility vehicles. In the past decade, although car sales have been 30% off their 1985 peak and have suffered two of their poorest years since the 1960s, the truck and van market has exploded to 60% of car sales...
...resolved -- if ever. Some major topics: Saturn's no-nonsense pay- what's-on-the-sticker pricing; a leasing campaign specially aimed at the California market, a fast exit from profit-draining rental discounts. Even smaller requests get a speedy response. A third shift at a Canadian truck plant? Four engineers needed for a special project? Done...
...head of worldwide purchasing. "Our staffs would spend all this time writing and proofreading these reports and then sending them around in advance to make sure no one would object. Now people come in here, stand up and fire away." Adds Clifford Vaughan, who is in charge of truck platforms: "Now the buck stops here as far as making decisions and holding people accountable...
...that we're starting to be less competitive with each other than we should be in the interests of society, and that's a message I sure would like to avoid getting, because I want to take every sale I possibly can from Jack and Bob, every car and truck. But I think it is important to make it clear that we are as competitive now, if not more so, as we have ever been...