Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publicity hits Chrysler at a time when it is peculiarly vulnerable. The company lost $120 million in this year's first quarter, and expects at best to break even for the rest of the year. Its share of the market for U.S.-made cars is down to about 13%, vs. a recent high of 16.2% in 1974. It has been counting on the Omni-Horizon to increase its market share, haul it into the black and help persuade investors and lenders to put up the $7.5 billion that it must spend over the next five years to bring...
...faster, leap higher, throw farther. For many, there were accomplishments they once would have thought impossible. A mile relay team fell into triumphant embrace when word came of qualification for the state finals. Team members shouted the joy of victory?"We did it!" ?and then asked permission to break training: "Now can we go to the Dairy Queen, Coach?" Granted...
...dense harmonies." Titled Satyagraha, it is based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and has been commissioned by the city of Rotterdam for a Netherlands Opera performance in 1980. But Glass also wants to pursue the quiet vein of Part 4: "I don't have to break the sound barrier every time...
...sweet Sandy, representing the Sandra Dee side of the coin, find happiness with dangerous Danny, the dark, flip side of it? Kleiser simply flattens out this conflict. It is possible, of course, that Olivia Newton-John does not have it within her to portray a girl deeply tempted to break out of her square cultural mold, but we know that John Travolta has the stuff to do Danny wonderfully. It seems criminal not to use the stud's drive and energy he displayed in Saturday Night Fever or even the nicely observed rebellious indifference he delivers in Welcome Back...
...odds on a colt's matching the demands of the Triple Crown are long enough to fire larceny in a bettor's soul and break a breeder's heart. Almost 30,000 Thoroughbreds are foaled annually on North American farms, but only about 3% ever win a stakes race, much less one of the Triple Crown races. Breeding Thoroughbreds is far from an exact science. Says Brownell Combs II, the manager of Spendthrift Farms, regularly one of the tops in the sport: "You breed the best mare you can possibly get to the best stallion...