For years, Godoff had not met the Random House expectation that each division show a 12percentt return on sales.
At the Frankfurt auto show this month, G.M.'s Opel division showed the Flextreme, a variation on the Volt with a small diesel engine charging the batteries.
"The hand-cyclist division showed what it could do today," said Bar-Shira, who sustained a spinal-cord injury in a car accident in 1979.
Merck said that sales of nearly all its major drugs exceeded expectations, and that the company's vaccine division showed strong gains.
CBS's entertainment division showed the most significant decline, producing $1.71 billion in revenue compared with $1.84 billion in the same period last year.
But in the quarter that ended Sept. 30, the movie division showed sluggish revenue, the result of tough comparisons to the previous quarter.
Ford's Lincoln division showed the Lincoln C design study, an idea for a smaller future luxury vehicle, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last January.
The headline figures showed an 11% increase in half year revenues to £108.5m and a 6% rise in profits to £27.3m, but within that, its enterprise solutions division showed a slower than expected 5% revenue rise.
On the morning of 16 October, two days after Meyer was contacted by phone, two agents, including a special agent in the FBI's Portland division, showed up at B. Hayworth's office in downtown Portland.
