Word: bmw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went to Northwestern in 1964 to study and play basketball and became a black-power militant. Today Ford, 39, is living in the west-side Chicago neighborhood where he grew up. A nattily dressed real estate developer, he has a big house and two cars, one of them a BMW. But he has also kept the vow he made in college: to use his education as a lever to help other black people...
Malacanang Palace, the former presidential residence, continued to yield evidence of Marcos' ostentatious ways. No fewer than 15 limousines, five standard Mercedes-Benz cars, a BMW, a Datsun and a Nissan still sit in the mansion's garage, as does the plush personal bus that Imelda used for political outings. Its appointments include 14 armchairs, two beds, a kitchen and bath. Parked nearby is the hospital-on-wheels that accompanied Marcos on his campaign stops earlier this year, its dialysis machine and operating table pointed reminders of the former President's frail health...
...falling dollar delights U.S. manufacturers because it makes them more competitive with foreign rivals. One negative aspect for American consumers is that the weaker dollar could boost prices of imports, including everything from Sony television sets to BMW coupes...
...headlights pierced the darkness. A silver BMW with Duvalier behind the wheel approached the runway. Beside him sat his dazzling wife Michele. Later, the couple unapologetically explained their tardiness: they had decided at the last minute to throw a midnight champagne party at the presidential palace to bid farewell to their closest friends...
...within hours, to the vast embarrassment of the Reagan Administration, the pudgy dictator appeared in the capital, Port-au-Prince, like a spirit conjured up by practitioners of voodoo, Haiti's folk religion. Baby Doc cruised through the streets in a BMW, surrounded by a bevy of armed outriders. In a radio broadcast to the country, he used an old Creole saying to brag, "I am here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail...