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...The dances in the play are based on choreography by Dan Wagoner, a member of a 1980s New York dance scene that emphasised spontaneity and playful responses to popular music....
...“We’re all GM here,” says Michael Chaffee, mayor of the town, which derives 70 per cent of its revenues from the carmaker. “There is no Plan B for us, no alternative.”...
...Wagoner, thank you very much indeed. RW: Thanks, great to be with you. FT: And now Rick Wagoner place his bets on long/short. Mr Wagoner, are you ready to play long/short?...
...GM’s current chief executive Rick Wagoner praised Mr Smith on Friday as “a leader who knew that we have to accept change, understand change, and learn to make it work for us”....
...But if the carmaker’s turnround, led by Rick Wagoner, chief executive, really is on track, it could portend a decline in volatility and therefore in trading volume around its securities....
...Michael Ganal, head of sales and marketing at BMW, said there was a trade-off between management speed and the economies of scale from size....
...Mr Wagoner now plans to use the time to join New York mayor Michael Bloomberg in the formal opening of two Harlem car dealerships....
...No word from GM’s Renaissance Centre HQ on whether 13 is Wagoner’s unlucky number....
...In the old economy, General Motors’ Rick Wagoner announces his car company’s aim to shed 30,000 jobs by 2008 (having seen GM’s debt reduced to junk bond status in May)....
..., Michael Bruynesteyn of Prudential Equity projected a further rise in the stock. Mr Bruynesteyn said he was swayed by the likelihood that GM would maintain its $2-a-share dividend....
...But Rick Wagoner, chairman and chief executive, has frequently warned that healthcare inflation is out of control, suggesting the company is unlikely to cut its forecast....
...Given the credit downgrades in the auto industry, it is no surprise that both William Clay Ford junior and Richard Wagoner of General Motors also drops down the list....
...Sergio Marchionne, Fiat chief executive, plans to tell Rick Wagoner, chairman and chief executive of GM, that the company will not accept another delay after the standstill agreement expires on Wednesday...
...Although GM has had to pay a heavy price for its investment in Fiat, the settlement will almost certainly be viewed as preferable to a drawn-out legal dispute and the prospect of chief executive Rick Wagoner...
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