Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last time that Ford Motor could claim to be the most profitable U.S. automaker, its best-selling car was the Model T. After trailing General Motors for 61 years, Ford last year outearned its top rival, $3.3 billion vs. $2.95 billion. Most impressive of all, Ford raced to the lead while selling less than half as many cars...
Promoting mass transit in Dallas, where the car is king, is something like selling straw hats in winter. This month, though, the city's bus service began testing a ploy to lure new customers. Riders drop off their dirty laundry in the morning at a bus stop heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair...
...Bette adored her older sisters. Susan is a health-care executive in New York City; Daniel lives with her. Judy, the eldest, was a brilliant, unhappy girl. She came to New York and, Bette says, "in 1968, as she was walking along 44th Street, a car came out of a garage and killed her. I was the only family member in town. I had to go to the morgue and identify the body. I don't think my mother ever recovered from the shock. It was a very bad time in our lives...
...mask, suddenly slips on a flat, wet rock and falls hard on her back. "I'm O.K.! I'm O.K.!" she shouts through her mask, and she gets back up. Suddenly an old Subaru cuts down into the ravine, and Ifan Evans, 47, who is driving, brings the car to a sharp halt just a few feet from the creek. Four people all seem to exit the car at the same time, and there is much hugging and kissing. But there is little time to waste...
...over in a minute. The engineer waves. These are friendly / apparitions; they wave back. Several passengers sight the dancers and flash broad smiles. As the last car crosses the trestle, the sun comes out for the first time all day, and at the same time, it begins to rain. "You made it rain! You made it rain!" Bridey shouts. "You made lightning...