Word: bmw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...site of the incident, a BMW windshield was shattered, and wiring was hanging out of a streetlight power...
...part in the scheme, MacDonald was to receive up to $750,000 in cash payments. By the time the plot was exposed, Brown says, he had given MacDonald $75,000 in cash and use of a $55,000 BMW. Most of MacDonald's fellow Navajos did not share in his good fortune; they continue to live their old, hardscrabble life. Fully half of all Navajo homes, for example, have no electricity or flush toilets...
...chose a $20,000 Porsche. That was the easy part. When she went shopping for auto insurance, two companies refused to insure the sports car. Stunned by their rejection, Kulas wound up with a firm that charges $4,600 a year to insure the Porsche and her husband's BMW. Says she: "This is outrageous. We're being penalized just because we have nice cars. We could buy another one for the amount we pay in insurance every year...
...think that this has not led to the perpetration of racial stereotypes as a basis for discrimination is naive. Last month, LeVar Burton, the television actor currently starring on the new Star Trek, was stopped in California for no apparent reason except that he was black and driving a BMW...
...ensuring that Ford offers a continuous stream of fresh cars. Some will be gussied-up versions of existing models -- known in the trade as "re-skins" -- while one will be a completely new model. Later this year the firm plans to unveil a Ford Thunderbird with styling resembling a BMW. Also in the works: face-lifts for the Ranger pickup and Bronco II sport-utility vehicle; a nip and tuck for the Taurus; a version of the Aerostar van that will stretch 15 in. longer than the current 14 1/2-ft. model; and by 1991 a compact four-wheel-drive...