Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kazo, the town where he lived, "the people are thought of as hicks by the ret of Japan." However, Frusztajer says, "I found the Japanese very status conscious. On the way home from the train station, I learned how much [my host father's] house, car and watch cost. It was very important for him to know the same things about my family...
...proposed acquisition will not shake up the rankings in the $230 billion- a-year U.S. auto industry. For increasingly robust Chrysler (1986 profits of $1.4 billion on sales of $22.6 billion), the deal would merely add AMC's piddling .7% car market share to the bigger firm's 10.3%. That would still leave the merged company far behind No. 2 Ford (18%) and GM (39.6%). But the purchase will help Chrysler solve a pressing problem: its factories do not have the capacity to produce enough cars to meet demand. Chrysler had started easing that production crunch by contracting...
...mixed. In effect, the company is bowing out of North American auto production, which it entered when it first signed a joint marketing agreement with AMC in 1979. The timing of the retreat is peculiar. AMC is about to introduce a new midsize sedan, the Premier, in October. The car, expected to sell for around $12,000, will still be built at the Canadian plant that Renault has now agreed to sell to Chrysler. This month Renault has begun exporting to the U.S. a new $10,000 compact, the Medallion, which Chrysler would continue to market. In addition...
...issue is more than $50 million in compensatory and punitive damages claimed by 65 plaintiffs, following a train wreck in Sturgeon, Mo., on the night of Jan. 10, 1979. A tank car on a Norfolk & Western freight broke a coupling and derailed, spilling 19,000 gallons of orthochlorophenol. Sturgeon was evacuated for two days while the spill was cleaned up. Then Monsanto announced that the spilled chemical contained a minute amount of dioxin, the type designated as 2,3,7,8-TCDD and described as the most toxic synthetic chemical known to man. A mere thimbleful was involved. But because...
...morning, the tourists discover that one of their number, an Iranian doctor, has been shot and killed. As they get ready to leave, Chloe has an insight: "Great dramas, your perspective on life, your life altered for all time and at the end you have to get into a car and drive home...