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Word: camaros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counted on to hold its value. It often claims that the life expectancy of its models on Swedish roads is 19.6 years. During the mid-1970s, however, the company was often slow shipping parts to U.S. dealers, causing repair delays. And some Detroit-built cars, notably Chevrolet's Camaro and Corvette, have kept their resale value better than Volvos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shunning Style | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...because of tough Government fuel-economy and pollution regulations. Now some automakers have produced models that get respectable gas mileage but can still accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 7 sec. Some of the hottest sellers: the Ford Mustang GT (up to $1 1,500) and the Chevrolet Camaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glimmer off Hope in Detroit | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...work, is, by its very nature, about violence-to the spirit as well as to the body." The historical horrors of industrialization (child labor, Dickensian squalor, the dark satanic mills) translate into the 20th century's robotic busywork on the line, tightening the same damned screw on the Camaro's firewall assembly, going nuts to the banging, jangling Chaplinesque whirr of modern materialism in labor, bringing forth issue, disgorging itself upon the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What Is the Point of Working? | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...violating the civil rights of two black men Theodore Fields, 20, and David Martin 18, who were shot to death in August while jogging with two teen-age white girls. Franklin had been arrested two months ago in Florence, Ky., but had soon escaped, leaving behind a Chevrolet camaro, two rifles and two handguns. Said he of the charges: "They are all trumped up because of my white racist views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Racist Rifleman | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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