Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sickening shock. Two months after he had been kidnaped on his way to parliament and his five bodyguards slain, Aldo Moro, 61, president of the Christian Democratic Party and Italy's most eminent statesman, was brutally assassinated, his body left in the back of a stolen car parked in the historic center of Rome. The cruel ordeal was over, but the grief and anger over his murder had only begun...
...fellow Pre-Med Steven Shafer, 24, who dropped out after the first week of his junior year, hitched a trailer to his car and headed for California. Two years later he was back in school, still eager to pursue medicine but also possessing some valuable souvenirs of his stop-out period, including a pilot's license, a fair knowledge of American literature, and the ownership of a computer software firm that grossed $300,000 last year...
...slightly less expensive journey than it used to be: car owners may be notified by first-class mail instead of the registered letters that Government agencies required in the past. But in postage alone, AMC will spend close to $40,000. Other costs could push the total bill to $3 million, a real burden for long troubled AMC, which earned only $2.7 million - peanuts for an auto manufacturer - in the last quarter...
Anywhere from 40% to 85% of AMC's owners have responded to past recalls; Ford's and GM's rates run from 70% to 85%. Generally, the newer the car, the higher the response rate, because new owners want feel that they are get everything they paid for. Also, the response to defects is usually higher than that to emission problems. Owners believe that pollution control system failures will somehow improve gas mileage and engine performance, though Brown asserts that that would not be the case with the Eaton part. "As far as we can tell," says...
Alonzo's principal collaborator on FM is Ezra Sacks, a screenwriter with an unabashed affection for recent American movies. His script, which seems to be about a war between hip deejays and crass moneymen at a Los Angeles radio station, is a scrupulous homage to such entertainments as Car Wash and Between the Lines. At least one of his three jokes is right out of MASH. Film buffs will undoubtedly have a whale of a time picking out such references to other movies; viewers with a less academic bent may wonder if Sacks might not be trafficking in stolen...