Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sales taxes. Sellers of such big-ticket items as autos, appliances and jewelry are likely to enjoy a boomlet as consumers hurry to buy before January. Scott Rielly, 28, a Framingham, Mass., real estate appraiser with a wife and two children, spent $14,000 last month on two new cars -- a Hyundai and a Mitsubishi -- at least partly so that he could write off the $700 sales tax. Rita and Dan Houlihan, a Chicago couple, have the same strategy in mind because of 8% state and city sales taxes. Says Rita: "On a $14,000 car, we're talking...
...years, Eastern's hourly no-frills flights linking Boston, New York and Washington have been the backbone of the Bos-Wash axis. Habitues have dubbed the $75 ride between New York and Washington, which combines the convenience and discomfort of a subway, the "cattle car." Anybody who is anybody in New York and Washington takes it at least twice a week. Senators, football players, lobbyists, lawyers and bankers scuttle between their spheres of influence, elbowing one another at the gate for favored seats. In Nora Ephron's Heartburn, the shuttle serves as a leitmotiv of power. Complaining about the shuttle...
...Manila, Aquino hailed last week's arrest of Salas as a "commendable ( accomplishment on the part of our law-enforcement agencies." Salas, 38, was captured outside the Philippine General Hospital after receiving treatment for sinusitis and a goiter condition. He was being helped into a car by Josefina Cruz, his wife, and Jose Concepcion, his driver and bodyguard, when the police closed in to arrest the trio. Officials claim that Salas took part in a 1974 ambush in which five U.S. Navy officers were killed. The government last week charged him with rebellion, a crime punishable by death...
...would like to tell the story of our car. It's an old car, born in 1976. And the KGB has subjected it to persecution...
...soon as it was widely known in the fall of 1981 that Andrei Sakharov and I were planning a hunger strike to get my daughter-in-law an exit visa, the car was stolen. When we were on the hunger strike and not leaving the house because we were afraid of being grabbed on the street and forcibly hospitalized, the car was suddenly found. The state traffic police kept calling us to come for it. We ignored them. But at last, unable to lure us out of the house with the prospect of getting our car back, they simply broke...