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GM asked to recall pickups

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asked GM to recall approximately 4.7 million pickup trucks that had been manufactured between 1973 and 1987 due to the possibility of fires caused by side-impact crashes. GM, claiming that the trucks were safe, opposed the recall.

Truck industry, Product defects and recalls, Investigations, Product recalls, United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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Business briefs

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Apple announced that it would lay off 2,500 workers. RJR Nabisco Holdings is selling 93 million shares of stock. General Motors Corp will transfer production of the Chevrolet Cavalier to Ramos Arizpe, Mexico. Wang Laboratories Inc and LTV Corp had bankruptcy proceedings.

Electronic computers, Prepackaged software, Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Blast furnaces and steel mills, Cigarettes, Chewing and smoking tobacco, Cold finishing of steel shapes, Computer industry, Foreign operations, Cases, Human resource management, Finance, Food industry, AAPL, Automobile industry, GM, Securities, Steel industry, Nabisco Group Holdings Corp., LTV Corp., LTV, Bankruptcy, Wang Laboratories Inc., Apple Inc., WANC, RN

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