Word: carli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Lee Grant of Sarasota, Fla., collected a wallful of "Salesman of the Year" plaques for his skill at moving Fords and Buicks off the lot. But when the new president of the local dealership issued a strict dress code requiring all used-car salesmen to wear sport coats, Grant decided to make his own fashion statement. He went out and bought two eye-torturing sport coats -- a screaming fuchsia and a rainbow plaid -- to go with his gray and green slacks. Already annoyed by Grant's frequent catnaps and snacking on the job, Dealer Conrad Darby fired...
...Royal Bank of Scotland and 5% of Trusthouse Forte, a leading hotel chain. On the Continent, Kuwait has invested more than $2 billion in Spanish companies. In West Germany, Kuwait owns 20% of Metallgesellschaft, a mining, metals and plastics company, and 14% of Daimler- Benz, the car manufacturer...
Wappingers Falls is so ordinary that it could serve as a set for the old television show Twilight Zone. Eighty miles up the Hudson River from New York City, the Dutchess County town has an unassuming 1950s air. A highway strip of car dealerships and fast-food joints leads into a village centered on a grassy park with a bandstand. A sign on Main Street announces Saturday-night bingo at St. Mary's Church. The biggest employer is IBM. The second biggest is New York State, which maintains a scattering of prisons and hospitals in the area...
...boyfriend was wounded in the same attack. The IRA has claimed responsibility for the shootings. An even uglier incident soon followed. On Saturday, during the funeral procession for one of the Milltown cemetery victims, an angry crowd of mourners spotted two British undercover agents desperately trying to maneuver their car out of trouble. They were pulled from their vehicle, disarmed, stripped, beaten savagely, dragged into a nearby alley and killed, apparently with their own weapons...
...soon as the buzzer in the NCAA Championship Game went off, the horns in Philadelphia went on. Honk. Honk. The streets of Philadelphia were filled with the sounds of car horns and the shouts of people yelling from their doorsteps. It was New Year's Eve and the clock had struck midnight...