Word: audi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...market in which sales of traditional sedans are stalled, car buyers have lately been going for upscale vehicles at unprecedented levels. In 1998 Mercedes' sales rose 39.2%, Jaguar's increased 15.4%, Lexus' jumped 60.2% (partly due to the addition of the RX300 to its lineup), while Audi's and Porsche's rose 39% and 33%, respectively. Overall sales of luxury cars, roughly defined as anything selling for more than $30,000, accounted for 15.1% of the passenger cars sold in the U.S. during the first quarter, up from 9% just five years...
...years the New Yorker printed McPhee's emerging rock opera as a succession of four-parters: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, Assembling California. Farrar, Straus published the same material as books, and the oddity was that in the magazine, attenuated among the Jag and Audi ads, these journeyings seemed dark, intriguing and geologically long, but in book form the same field reports were sunlit, brilliant and short...
...news: Volkswagen's $713 million deal to buy Rolls-Royce, the once regal, now tarnished marque of British motoring. Ford also announced last week that it will consider increasing its 16.9% stake in Kia Motors Corp., South Korea's troubled No. 2 automaker, which filed for bankruptcy last summer. Audi is apparently considering purchasing Lamborghini. VW and Renault could be next...
...well. Hargis was particularly impressive; she is a specialist in pre-Baroque music, and it shows. She captured the Renaissance style perfectly, demonstrating complete control over her voice so that there was no excessive vibrato, yet no shrill tone. Also greatly enjoyable was the tenor dialogue in the Audi coelum (IX), in which Hite sang his responses to Kelley from the balcony...
Oktoberfest is jointly sponsored by HSBA, the USTA Visa Card, The Boston Phoenix, Audi and 100.7 WZLX...