Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give up the big profits in building big cars. As a consequence, Ford today has the fewest small economical models. Meanwhile, in order to boost quarterly sales figures, Chrysler during the '70s pushed questionable products onto the market on a near panic basis. One result: the 1974 Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare have the dubious distinction of being two of the most recalled cars in history. Operating on the industry's fringe, American Motors Corp.'s small cars failed to win wide buyer approval. Its profits came largely from the popular, though fuel-thirsty, four-wheel-drive...
Ivan Strand Aspen, Colo...
Police believe that Jacobson drove away in a blue 1980 Dodge Aspen rented by his son's girlfriend. They believe that he took with him another model, Audrey Barrett, 22, who has also disappeared. One theory holds that the couple drove to either Philadelphia or Washington and caught a commercial flight out of the country, heading perhaps for Central America or the Caribbean. But no one really knows...
...this Friday there is no work. Around noon Thursday, a navy blue Dodge Aspen, No. 142 274, went by on its way down the jerky, rumbling assembly line as Dodge Main's last car. As it passed, small groups of instrument fitters, engine installers and wheel mounters cleaned up quietly and left. When the line finally came to a halt, nothing dramatic followed, no mass exodus, not even a final silence. Plant officials gathered around the blue Aspen for photographs, then drifted to the windows overlooking the Bismarck Gate to watch television crews clustered around departing workers, striving...
...unlike Navin, Martin most likely will not be sued for marketing a faulty product (the "Optigrab" causes 10 million consumers to go cross-eyed) and will pocket a tidy sum from this film. Navin winds up in the gutter; Martin will probably purchase a new ski chalet in Aspen. Yet, in the end, Navin may end up the richer man--his adopted family and Marie find him on Skid Row and shower him with affirmation and love. As for Steve, if Martin the Writer continues to dominate Martin and Comedian, he may well find both his coffers and his mailbox...