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...episode vividly reveals Chrysler's philosophy for the coming free- for-all in cars. It wants to be the automaker that can detect sudden opportunities and take swift advantage of them while rivals are still forming a committee to study the situation. The only surprise is that the latest bright idea did not come from Chairman Lee Iacocca, the man who hatched the comeback of the convertible in 1982. Instead, the America concept sprang from two of Iacocca's potential successors, Gerald Greenwald, chairman of the company's automaking division, and Harold Sperlich, its president. The automaker's stockholders will...
...Carla Bley Band, a sextet jazz rhythm section, will perform at Cambridge's Jonathan Swift's Pub on Wednesday November...
Undeniably, individual investors, who still own $1.95 trillion in equities, or two-thirds of all U.S. stock, have been getting rid of their holdings at a swift clip. In 1985 U.S. households sold $122 billion more in stock than they bought, a record. This year the net sales are projected to reach $105 billion...
That is the task that the FSLIC faces with regard to many thrift associations. The agency is likely to meet the challenge, but only with help from Congress in the form of a sizable and swift infusion of cash...
...Heads were a prominent part of a creative community that kicked avant- garde American culture into a newer, more accessible shape. Music, dance, performance art and rock all flowed together into a single swift stream, which Byrne navigated effortlessly (see following story). He also wrote scores for the spectacular theatrical ruminations of Robert Wilson (The Knee Plays, segments of Wilson's grand-scale project, the CIVIL warS) and the spirited, quirky choreography of Twyla Tharp. "He is very precise and very careful," Tharp says admiringly. "He doesn't waste things, but he is also capable of being very adventuresome...