Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the first Pontiac Fiero hit the streets in 1983, automobile buffs waxed ecstatic. The two-door coupe had the sleek lines of a sports car, and its original base price of $7,990 made it comely even to cash-conscious commuters, who did not mind that it had only two seats. A molded plastic exterior and an engine placed just behind those seats to improve handling gave the auto a justifiable reputation for innovative design. But last week parent company General Motors, citing decelerating sales, suddenly slammed the brakes on all future production of the Fiero (the Italian word...
After a promising debut, the car got into trouble. Last year GM had to conduct a reputation-denting recall of all 1984 models because of a defect that occasionally caused engine fires. Fiero's demise may also have been helped along by steep insurance rates, which ran as high as $5,000 in some states because the young unmarried men who favored the auto were generally considered high-risk drivers. Fiero suffered too from a surfeit of two- seaters. With as many as five other such cars seeking a chunk of a dwindling market, Fiero sales fell from nearly...
...rather immature piece of work," said United Feature. "Crude and hurried," said Esquire Features. Even at Detective Comics, which finally bought the feature after much argument and delay to help launch Action Comics four years later, Publisher Harry Donenfeld looked at the first cover, of Superman lifting a car over his head (a treasure that now can fetch $35,000 from collectors), and delivered his verdict: "Ridiculous...
Nothing is very easy here at the American Truck Driving School of Texas, a boot camp for long-haul drivers. The school's aim is to take a driver who may never have driven a car with a stick shift and, in three weeks of nonstop instruction, turn the greenhorn into a licensed, road-ready trucker. That means endless hours of double-clutching around a 3.2-mile course of rutted concrete while dodging orange traffic cones and 50 other student truckers...
...load will weigh out at 317 lbs., worth about $250,000 in South Texas and much more elsewhere in the U.S. If they hadn't been busted, the mules, who earn $200 a trip, would have carried the marijuana up to the highway and loaded it into a waiting car...