Word: autos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's a way to fix the auto-insurance mess. And in many states it's now such a mess, and people are so upset, it could conceivably lead to an entirely new system, one designed to serve the public rather than the attorneys and insurance agents. You could hardly design an auto-insurance system worse than ours. With minor variations, it works the same in every state, and it favors only three groups...
...Trial attorneys (no state has true no-fault auto insurance...
...Most auto-rental customers want brand-new models with few miles on them. But National Car Rental is assembling a fleet for motorists who prefer cars with tail fins, gleaming chrome and wide whitewalls. At several of National's major outlets in Florida and California, the agency has begun offering dozens of carefully restored 1950s and '60s autos. Among them: Thunderbirds, Buick Roadmasters and even Studebakers...
...stationed itself carefully between those twin towers of late night, Carson and David Letterman. Like Letterman, Sajak has a touch of self-mocking irony and presides over irreverent comedy bits, which range from funny (Sajak goes to the doctor) to lame (audience members are enlisted to play Dunk an Auto Mechanic). But the show's physical look (band on the right, desk and couch on the left) and format (opening monologue followed by brief chat with easygoing sidekick), along with the host's witty but nonthreatening style, are all unmistakably Carson...
...Three rivals, since Chrysler's fleet of mostly midsize-and- smaller cars gets an average of 27.5 m.p.g., vs. 27.2 for General Motors and 26.6 for Ford. GM Chairman Roger Smith has denounced a higher gas tax as "cruel" and "unfair" and argued that it would dampen auto sales. Ford has straddled the fence. Vice Chairman Harold Poling said his company would support a phased increase of 15 cents per gal. over three years, but only as a last resort for cutting the deficit...