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...second part of the conversion, which may take up to six or seven years to complete because of the guidelines and contracts involved, calls for "complete renovation or total replacement" of Cambridge's 68-year-old water system, Cusack said...
...financial outlook: "Stinko," declares Robert Crandall, chief of American Airlines, one of the healthiest carriers. Michael Durham, the airline's chief financial officer, blames the fuel jolt as the No. 1 problem. "There's very little you can do when a commodity that represents 15% to 20% of your total operating costs goes up by almost 100%. It's a very difficult time to make money...
...jets for three years. Chicago-based Midway is closing down its hub at Philadelphia, which it bought only a year ago from Eastern, and plans to sell its operations there to USAir for $67.5 million. Northwest has trimmed its flight schedule by 24 daily flights, or 2% of its total. Even Phoenix-based America West, one of the fastest-growing U.S. carriers, is cutting some late-night and weekend flights...
...answer: Japan. Over the past four years, imports of foreign cars there have been rising at annual rates of around 35% in a generally stagnant market. This year the Japanese will buy more than 230,000 foreign-made cars; by 1995 the number could double, accounting for 10% of total annual sales and about the same level of penetration as Japanese carmakers now have in Europe...
...becoming an export market like any other, only more so. Clearly a market in which a company can go from zero to a $1 billion-a-year business in less than a decade is worth the effort. And how are the U.S. companies doing in Japan? Not well. Total 1989 sales of the U.S. Big Three automakers combined were only about 3,500 more than Rover...