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- <text id=91TT0348>
- <title>
- Feb. 18, 1991: Business Notes:Autos
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- AUTOS
- GM Gets a Little Slimmer
- </hdr><body>
- <p> For the first time since 1980, General Motors ordered deep
- cuts in the dividends it pays to stockholders--from 75 cents
- to 40 cents a share. GM also said it will curtail executive
- bonuses this year and phase out 15,000 white-collar jobs by
- 1993. The dividend cut alone will save $840 million a year.
- </p>
- <p> Industry experts foresee even worse news ahead for the
- company: they project a $1.4 billion loss, the firm's worst
- ever, when fourth-quarter 1990 earnings are announced this
- week. But Wall Street analysts applaud GM's moves, saying they
- indicate that the world's largest automaker is preparing for
- a long, hard recession. And with sales of domestic cars
- plummeting 31% in January to the lowest level since 1982, they
- predict that Ford and Chrysler will be forced to make similar
- cuts in the spring.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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