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Word: camaros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quality color photos, was GM's top-secret Saturn automobile, which the company has spent $3 billion to develop and plans to roll into showrooms late next year. What really sent the motor moguls into orbit were signs that the Saturn pictures, along with shots of the 1993 Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird in the same issue, had been leaked to the trade magazine by an employee in GM's design studios. Unlike the grainy, long-distance spy shots that paparazzi regularly take of new models as they whiz around company test tracks, the Saturn pictures were crisp and carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case of The Purloined Pix | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...four-wheel Beretta was announced in 1986, the Italian firm negotiated with GM for two years in a fruitless effort to get the car's name changed. GM, which plans to contest the suit, insists the name is derived from various former products, including a version of the Chevy Camaro called the Berlinetta that was sold from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITIGATION: Dueling Trademarks | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...stellar rise was too good to be true. Only eight years ago Texan J.R. McConnell drove a beat-up Camaro, hawked cameras on street corners and dabbled in real estate. But after a string of deals worthy of Dallas' J.R. Ewing, McConnell's jalopy gave way to private jets and limousines, and he became a top Galveston developer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Fraud | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...developed the world's first computer-generated freestanding hologram -- a three-dimensional image of a green Camaro sedan suspended in midair. Unlike most holographic images, which are put onto flat photographic plates, the Camaro is recorded on a concave plate and projected into the air by laser beams. The hologram was designed with funding from General Motors, which still painstakingly builds scale models of new car designs out of clay. In the future, GM and other automakers may be able to use holograms to see what a car will look like before it is actually manufactured. Eventually, such images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Dreaming The Impossible at M.I.T. | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Instead, Cheryl, 17, and her sister Lisa, 16, went driving around the Bergenfield area with two companions, Thomas Olton, 18, and Thomas Rizzo, 19. At about 3 a.m., the teenagers stopped at an Amoco station and bought $3 worth of gas for Olton's brown Camaro. They asked if they could take the hose from the station's automobile vacuum cleaner, but the attendant refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen Suicide: Two death pacts shake the country | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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