Word: buick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cash payments are more controversial than ever this year. Unlike 1975, when industry-wide rebates were last offered, this time hard-pressed dealers are being asked to bear some of the cost. For example, buyers of Oldsmobile Cutlass Supremes and Buick Regals will get $700 back-$400 from GM and $300 from the dealer. Ford's rebate plan, which ranges from $610 for a Fairmont to $1,769 on the four-door Mark VI, is similar...
...legend lives on--a self-conscious parody of itself. Confederate flags grace the rear windows of countless Le Sabres (of the Buick variety), and the endless parade of hypesters, from Ted Turner to the late Colonel Sanders, parade themselves in front of a beguiled public as something unique--something Southern. Of course, one would be hard pressed, once one looked beneath the drawl, to find anything unique at all. The South is as distressingly prime-time American as any other section of the country, perhaps even more so. We would like the South to be different; to be a hopeless...
...Jeep against the wall of a crowded Army orderly room and later slammed a 2½-ton truck through the imposing Sterling Gate at Fort Sill, Okla. ("There wasn't enough left of it to make matchsticks.") Nowadays he rides splendidly in the back seat of the family Buick, while his wife does the driving...
...dark, rainy Boston street six years ago, two policemen leaped from their car and ran toward a blue Buick that was about to pull away. Eight or nine shots rang out. A black man slumped over the Buick's steering wheel with fatal wounds in the back of his head and between his shoulder blades. As residents of a nearby public-housing project milled about, James Bowden, 25, was taken to the morgue, another casualty of the war between inner-city Americans and the nation's embattled police. The policemen said that Bowden was suspected of robbing...
...automakers' hopes for a sales surge have been dashed against the rocks of high sticker prices and staggering interest rates. Only five years ago, $5,000 would have bought an option-packed Oldsmobile or Buick station wagon. Today, that amount is barely enough to pay for a stripped-down two-door Chevette. The same Buick wagon would cost nearly $11,000. The Big Three have been forced to hike the price of their fuel-efficient models mostly to pay for the $80 billion that they are spending to design and produce them. But Detroit may have pushed prices...