Robert Barry
Robert Barry
Robert Barryis an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world."...
ProfessionPerformance Artist
Date of Birth9 March 1936
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We remain confident GM will offer some assistance to Delphi, but bankruptcy risk cannot be ignored. We think GM would find it hard to justify not offering its struggling, former captive supplier, Delphi, some form of assistance.
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We reiterate our concern about the profit drag from selling fewer SUVs.
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We doubt a buyer gets in front of risk that a strike cripples GM North America. UAW negotiations tend to go down to the wire -- now March 31 -- so a GMAC sale is harder to envision before sometime in the second quarter.
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We are not confident the restructuring addresses the core issue that GM brings too much supply to the North American market.
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What investor wants to buy a company that sells plastics to GM when plastics are going through the roof while the prices GM pays go down?
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These savings are a clear positive, but retiree liability cuts are likely to see some almost immediate offsets, from ongoing health care inflation, possible Delphi liability assumption and falling long-term rates.
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By and large, I would have to say that the process was extraordinarily orderly, the level of violence was unexpectedly low and the polling station committees, considering the fact that they had never done anything like this before, did, I think, a commendable job,
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Investors are anxious to measure demand for GM's new SUVs, but we think too few will have infiltrated the market to draw any meaningful conclusions before April.
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These trends keep us confident in our assumptions of sizable Ford and GM share loss in 2006.
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This is consistent with growing press speculation that potential buyers are scarce.
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The Joint Election Management Board has offered such a process and we urge that it be used,
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The consumer spending environment since midsummer has softened. Our initial estimate is for 2006 sales of 16.8 million units, but we expect aggressive pricing will be needed to achieve that given a weakening consumer.
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The ballot this year is highly complex. We are trying to make sure that people understand the ballot. For the first time this year, it is electronically readable.
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The bottom line is we see little to no earnings growth in '06. Indeed, flat earnings may end up being a notable accomplishment, given the stresses the auto sector is facing.