Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here, it's not getting the car that's a problem, finding a place to park it. The Harvard car-owner has three options: park in a Harvard-owned lot, park on Cambridge streets with a city permit, or park illegally...
...less than the $800 a month he figures a conventional auto loan would cost him. Tom and Dede Spencer of Kirkwood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, decided to lease their 1987 Dodge Caravan for $367.50 a month. They can spend the money they would otherwise use for a car down payment for new carpeting and the delivery-room bills for their new baby...
...Car leases are increasingly available from auto companies and dealers, as well as from financial institutions. While most showroom personnel still push first for sales, two-thirds of the nation's 25,150 auto dealers now arrange leases as well. The Consumer Bankers Association says 53% of its member banks leased cars last year, up from just 26% in 1983. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1986 assets: $90.78 billion) says the number of leases on its books has increased from about 50,000 in 1982 to about 600,000 last year. GM's Pontiac Division last month introduced 50-month...
Other changes have made journalists more willing to broach such previously unmentionable subjects. A succession of public scandals involving politicians in the '60s and '70s (including Senator Edward Kennedy's car accident at Chappaquiddick, which resulted in the death of a female companion, and Representative Wilbur Mills' drunken shenanigans at the Tidal Basin with a former stripper) brought the issue of womanizing to the forefront. With the breakdown of sexual taboos in the 1960s, public discussion of such topics became more acceptable. At the same time, with the changing status of women, society has grown less tolerant of the macho...
...morning. They did not see Hart and the woman emerge again until shortly after dark Saturday evening. At that point Hart apparently noticed the surveillance team, and he and his companion re-entered the town house. Thirty minutes later, according to the Herald, Hart came out alone, drove his car a short distance away, then "walked aimlessly up and down" a few blocks. Just outside his home, he agreed to an interview. Hart denied any impropriety but, the reporters said, acted nervous and evasive and refused to let them talk to the woman. After 20 minutes, Hart ended the interview...