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To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (46938)	6/26/1998 11:58:00 AM
From: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58727

Fed intervening in another country's currency...forgot who it was... anyone looking at Hasbro here is a story for you there is a new candy toy out there that is outselling everything Number 1 item at FAO schwartz (not sure if he meant overall or just in the candy toy category) It is a sucker that transmits a sound bite (or is it byte) via your teeth and you are the only one that can hear it they got the idea from Thomas Edison who was almost deaf and need to bite on a bar to make some of his inventions that consisted of sound... this candy toy is not in all areas yet it cost 10 bucks I dont think I want vibrations going through my mouth and into my ear.... just wait for the lawsuits on this one...

To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (46938)	6/26/1998 12:18:00 PM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58727

Nice post from Robert, I'd already read it over on the BK and was going to comment there, but it's safer here ..... ggg Last night, Ted Koppel on Nightline had several ( 5-6 ) of the striking workers from Flint Machine, a Chicago automotive journalist, and the size large dude who made the semi unflattering film on Roger Smith back in 90. The workers all were saying, we did what GM wants and now they want to redo the deal ........ The big film man (hey thats a double entrende) could say nothing good about the greedy big co. The writer had the most revealing statement, to me at any rate, ---- "GM should have done this identical thing back in 78 instead of now, and their market share possibly would not have shrunk from 50 to 30. This is a must for GM to survive" And, most of the rest of the show covered the same areas as Robert's post........ As I do recall, from some of his previous postings, he's from Livingston, Tx and Marilyn comes from that neck of the woods so he probably knows whereof he speakth ....... ggggg THE MAIN FLAWS for quick settlement ----- ..1) the union that started this thing is a minute amount of folks compared to the amount of folks affected ...2) the union picked a time frame very very very close to the annual two week shut down to commence the strike ...3) a sizeable portion of the 100k who are put out of work can't draw unemployment pay benefits other than the pitifully small amount from the union strike fund ...4) GM is dealing from a position of strength Now, that ought to liven up the thread some ..... been missing out on all the fussin and cussin, what with my good mexican friend, Manuel Labor being a resident at my hacendia lately ....gggggg Regards --- Nemer

To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (46938)	6/26/1998 11:08:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58727

thanks for drawing my attention to Bob Furman's post, lisa. In a Barron's piece on Monday, there was a very very long GM story. Not surprisingly, GM trails the other two (Ford & Chrysler) on nearly every financial measurement, starting with profit per car. Chrysler's profit per car is substantially more than GM's, about double if I remember right. Not that the union cares about company profit per car, but it falls to GM management to think about things such as competition, and what impact that may have on market share trends, etc. Sure GM is still making profits, but if GM doesn't do anything about it's costs while the competition is getting lean and mean, GM could be forced into a very undesirable position (i.e. manufacturing cars which it is forced to sell at a loss).