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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contends that the Samurai is tippy because of a fundamental design flaw: the center of gravity is too high. Thus Consumers Union is urging the Government to order Suzuki Motor to buy back all 160,000 of the Samurais (base price: about $8,500) sold in the U.S. The car's importer, American Suzuki Motor Corp., strongly defends its product as safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VEHICLE SAFETY: Inclined To Roll | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...chafe at this film's substitution of efficiency | for energy, of speed for style; they may yawn at an old mirror-image routine that Midler essays, which is lifted from Silent Comedian Max Linder and the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. But Big Business was designed as a compact car, not a classic. Once Director Jim Abrahams (Airplane!) hot-wires the mechanism, the plot takes care of itself, and the movie pretty genially takes care of any audience looking for frenetic summer fun. It's value for money to get two fish-out-of-water stories in one, especially with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Country Girls vs. Manhattan Ladies BIG BUSINESS | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...October crash brought a lot of people our way," one classic car company owner in Arizona told the Times. "Our sales jumped by more than $14 million in 1988. We've never had that kind of jump before," added the owner, whose cars sell for more than $150,000 each...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Secret of Our Success | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...palpable terror as his hero and mistress take a wrong turn and are forced to drive through a minority neighborhood. Some would call this telling it like it is, but the writer Howard Fast, for one, felt obliged to write to The New York Times to tell of his car breaking down in the South Bronx--and the helpful assistance he received from local residents...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Wolfe's Hard Sell | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...load it into a trailer. Says Steve Westbrook, one of 32 private field inspectors hired by the state: "Used to be cowboy types would steal cattle. Now it's everyone, from a person trying to support a drug habit to an unemployed person who is behind on house and car payments." The victims of many of the Texas thefts are city dwellers who have weekend "ranchettes" of about 15 acres, where they relax and keep a few cows and perhaps a horse or two. With no one minding the place during the week, the cows are easy targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen On The Range | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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