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...quality of the food at the First Street Cafe seems beside the point. The point is that here is a brand-new restaurant in a brand-new building that is claiming to be charitable while, in fact, it is part of a revitalization effort that might threaten the livelihood of many...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: East Cambridge Toodle-Oo | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

Only last August, Chrysler announced that it would pay more than $16 million to 38,600 people across the U.S. whose "brand-new" cars had in fact sometimes been test-driven hundreds of miles with the odometers disconnected. Now investigators have discovered that the giant automaker sold, bought back and then resold 392 defective cars in New York without telling their new owners about their mechanically troubled past. Under the state's so-called lemon law, automakers must notify the department of motor vehicles as well as any future buyers when they repurchase flawed automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Well-Squeezed Lemons | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...American Musical is touring the country this fall. An Elvis postage stamp is probably next, once proponents agree on which image -- that of the young or the middle-aged star -- should appear on it. And one can call an 800 number and get details about a Memphis bank's brand-new Elvis MasterCard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The King Is Dead - or Is He? | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...Chairman Lee Iacocca in his current best seller, Talking Straight. Last week Iacocca's company made good on its most infamous goof-up in years, the practice of test-driving some of its cars as far as 300 miles with their odometers disconnected and then selling the cars as brand-new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Honest Lee's Used Cars | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

RICHARD THOMPSON: AMNESIA (Capitol). He's a monster guitar player and a master songwriter, touching top form again on this brand-new album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 5, 1988 | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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