Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only U.S. automaker to find romance in Italy. That country has suddenly become Detroit's most abundant wellspring of style and mystique. Chrysler signed a deal in June to boost its stake in the Maserati sports-car company from 3.5% to 15.6%, and plans to bring out a jointly produced convertible priced in the $30,000 range by fall 1987. Ford, meanwhile, is negotiating to buy a majority share of sports-car maker Alfa Romeo...
...have multiplied during the past decade because of intensifying global competition. The major U.S. automakers have jointly produced autos with Japanese, British, French and German companies in order to share new technology and enter lucrative foreign markets. But until recently, notes Fiat Chairman Gianni Agnelli, "Italy is the only car-producing country in Europe where Detroit has seldom been...
...Allante certainly comes dear. It is by far the most expensive production car that GM has ever made, surpassing the 1986 Seville ($27,600). Christened with a made-up Italianate name, the 1987 Allante got its start in 1982, when Cadillac engaged the venerated Pininfarina firm, best known for its Ferrari body styles, to design the car and build its outer shell. The car's planners searched all over the world for the components, settling on an electronics system from Japan and aluminum hood and deck lid from Switzerland, among other parts. Pininfarina assembles the bodies in a factory near...
...shoved the journalists, sending two of them sprawling into the curbside snow. As the shaken reporters picked themselves up, all but one of the gang disappeared down a side street. The straggler, a tall, beefy young man wearing a karakul hat, followed the correspondents as they headed for their car a block away...
...dimensions of today's crisis. Statistics to be released by the National Institute on Drug Abuse this month will show rather surprisingly that the current cocaine epidemic has already peaked, and the use of other drugs is declining significantly. Drugs kill, but not nearly so often as the family car. Coke and heroin cause much less overall harm, in statistical terms, than alcohol or tobacco...