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Word: carli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cohn to defend him, then eventually signed a consent decree. No less vexing was the 1983 controversy at the 1,400-apartment Shore Haven Apartments in Brooklyn, where the Trump organization started charging new tenants $40 to $60 a month for garage fees regardless of whether they had cars. One tenant, Viola Salomone, actually acquired a car and parked it in the unlocked and unattended garage, then found it vandalized. She refused to pay any more. The Trumps cracked down. Said Salomone: "I'll die first before I give you another penny for garage space." Said a civil court judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flashy Symbol of an Acquisitive Age: DONALD TRUMP | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...Trump City, "a concept that is going to be spectacular." It would feature a 150-story building, the world's tallest ("The city of New York should have the world's tallest building"), plus 7,600 luxury apartments in a dozen skyscrapers, a huge shopping mall, a 9,000-car underground-parking garage, a nine-acre riverfront park and various odds and ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flashy Symbol of an Acquisitive Age: DONALD TRUMP | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Travelers heading for the sun or the slopes this winter will probably notice a jump in the price of getting away from it all. The culprits this time are not the airlines but the leading U.S. car-rental agencies, which are imposing their first significant price increases in several years. Last week Hertz increased its rates as much as 5%, and Avis said it plans to do likewise within the year. Other rental agencies are expected to follow the industry leaders before long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leave The Coverage to Us | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...car-rental companies are responding in part to a loss of revenue from one of their most expensive options: collision insurance. Until recently many car-rental customers paid as much as $13 a day for so-called collision-damage waivers to protect themselves against liability for any repair costs in case their vehicles were damaged. But many major credit-card companies now offer such coverage to their cardholders at no cost whenever they charge a rental. As a result, more and more consumers decline the pricey waivers. In the most sweeping move so far, American Express began offering the collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leave The Coverage to Us | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...Rental-car firms have long maintained that CDWs are reasonably priced and that most of the revenues from them go toward repairing vehicles. But now at least some car-rental executives concede that the CDW has been a money-maker all along. The Hertz rate increase, says Russo, is "primarily designed to take care of the revenue loss" that will follow American Express green-card coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leave The Coverage to Us | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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