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...same sort of bozos who made up the terrorist left in the '60s and '70s. You're putting out a hate-filled message, a paranoiac message, and you go beyond that and say, 'Get your guns, because it is coming,' and you've just raised their temperature another 25?...
...several years, lacocca has been lobbying for a 25??-per-gal. increase in the federal gasoline tax. Most proponents of the idea see it as a way to discourage consumption, but lacocca knows it would help Chrysler sell its new cars, which have been designed to go farther on less gas than their U.S. competitors. Chrysler's fleet averages 27.5 m.p.g., vs. 24.3 for Ford and 24.1 for GM. If falling oil prices spur a demand for old-fashioned big cars, Chrysler will hurt the worst. Says lacocca: "What's happening with gasoline is wacko. It's crazy. We needed...
...business for the same reason as the new pornographers: voyeur sex is enormously profitable. Hardcore 8-mm. home-movie reels, which cost a dollar or two to produce, retail for $16. A peep show minimovie machine, which shows a customer about two minutes of porn for 25?? or the full twelve-minute reel for $1.50, can gross more than $10,000 per year; most sex shops have several machines. A hard-core porno movie for theatrical showing can be made for $15,000 to $50,000 and return millions...
...Detroit, a Free Press reporter alerted federal agents that the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel was replacing the 10¢ locks on its men's room pay toilets with 25?? locks. Hotel Manager Patrick Birmingham, flushed with embarrassment after word of his overpriced plumbing began to seep out, ordered the old, noninflationary devices reinstalled...
...Falcon plunged toward the Apennines' 12,000-ft. peaks in a trajectory steeper (25??) than any moon lander before, Scott and Irwin barely displayed a trace of emotion. By the time they were 50 ft. from the surface, the dust kicked up by Falcon's engine was so thick that Scott could not see the landing site. Relying on instruments, Irwin counted: "Ten feet . . . eight feet . . ." Then Scott cut in: "Contact." On Falcon's instrument panel, a blue light flashed. Said Scott: "The Falcon is on the plain at Hadley...