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...often fiercely independent society. Dealerships are regularly traded or sold among friends or in-laws; 40% of them at present were inherited from a family member. Oldsmobile general manager John Rock, who is the son of a Chevrolet dealer and whose wife is the daughter of a Buick dealer, notes half jokingly, "Most of our dealers seem to come from the same sperm bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Guys Finish First? | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...Buick, Chrysler and Jeep showed off space-age technology in aerodynamic concept cars...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Milder, | Title: Latest Cars on Display At Bayside Expo Center | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...bought a 1977 Buick a few years back that gets 14 miles to the gallon. If it gives up the ghost next year and you replace it with a 1985 model that gets 18 m.p.g., that's a 28% increase in fuel efficiency. They could hike the price of gas 28%, and it wouldn't cost you a penny more to drive a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: A Tax Increase You Can Avoid | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...Kagan Associates, a media-research firm. "Another way you can do it is to make sure that no matter what they're watching in the home, your commercial goes into that show." From spending and demographic information, advertisers could determine that one home should see an ad for a Buick while another is getting the soft sell for a Jeep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Revolution Comes | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...Pensacola. He did so regularly, another stop on his 1,000-mile, six-day-a-week schedule of performing abortions at seven clinics in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Gunn had reason to feel depressed: in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, he virtually lived out of his white Buick Skylark and encountered antiabortion protests and threats nearly everywhere he practiced. Paula remembers marveling at his high spirits as he set off with a limp -- the trace of his childhood polio -- last Wednesday at about 9:10. He drove to the Pensacola Women's Medical Services in Cordova Square, a suburban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thou Shalt Not Kill | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

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