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...bought a Cadillac last week," Foreman said the other day. "I mean, it's been eight years since I had a decent car. I love this truck"--as he spoke, he was driving his Ford pickup around his 200-acre ranch outside Marshall, Texas--"but it's a truck. I got rid of the Mercedes, the Rolls-Royce, all that stuff, because it made people stiffen up. Like they wanted to compete. They're more relaxed when I don't have a good car. But I needed a car, an American car, and I needed a big car because...
...revenues rose 23%, to $940 million, while profits of $143 million were up 24% over 1983. The company's stock has risen along with its fortunes, from $18 per share in 1974 to a peak of $174.50 last year, earning Capital Cities a reputation among investors as "the Cadillac of the industry...
...college education. For the professor, Harvard can be viewed as a way of getting in with the power structure of whites Blacks can abandon their traditional customs and through a type of collegiate evolution become Yuppies, driving to work at IBM, parking their Nissans in the rows of Cadillac...
...English finished a roast pig dinner at Horwath's restaurant in Elmwood Park, Ill., trading small talk for more than two hours with, among others, two Cook County judges and two village trustees. He patted his stomach, hitched up his belt, waved goodbye and walked toward his white Cadillac De Ville coupe. As he reached for the car door, two men wearing ski masks pumped five shots into his body, one hitting him between his eyes...
...last time a new name plate appeared at General Motors was 1926, when the company introduced the Pontiac. Last week another one was added. Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac suddenly got a baby brother. In GM's boldest plan yet to counter Japanese imports, Chairman Roger Smith announced that it would set up an entirely new company, called Saturn Corp., to produce its long-planned line of subcompact cars. Smith called Saturn "the key to GM's long-term competitiveness, survival and success as a domestic producer...