Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the road ahead for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler could prove as rocky as a potholed city street. The first sign of trouble came last week, even before the strike was called. Manufacturers reported that new-car sales for the first ten days in October fell by 10.1%, as compared with the same period last year. During September, more than 800,000 Americans rushed to buy cars because of the special 7.7% and 7.5% financing offered by the major carmakers. The lower interest rate saved a consumer $1,056 on a four-year loan for an $11,000 car...
...landscapes, particularly the views of urban San Francisco that form the larger part of his output in the '80s, are an altogether different matter. The bright city on its blue bay has always been a happy hunting ground for purveyors of seagull-and-cable-car kitsch. But Thiebaud's paintings give it a weird, flattened intensity, as though its switchback hills and plunging spaces had been crushed flat against the canvas, in a parody of cubism with overtones of Canaletto...
...President of Lebanon climbed behind the wheel of his bulletproof Mercedes, drove down the mountain from his official residence at Bikfaya and continued a rare private interview with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart. The car, along with the security vehicles that accompanied it, eventually came to a halt at a private club, where the discussion proceeded over dinner. Though his country remains deeply troubled, Amin Gemayel, 43, sounded unexpectedly optimistic, insisting that the recent unrest in Tripoli and Beirut is like "the last battle in a long war." Indeed, the major factions in Lebanon's ten-year civil war last...
SENTENCED. Clarence Busch, 52, drunken driver whose 1980 killing of 13-year- old Cari Lightner in Fair Oaks, Calif., prompted her mother Candy to form Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD); to four years in prison for crashing his car while intoxicated last April into an auto driven by Carrie Sinnott, causing her minor injuries; in Sacramento. After his conviction in the Lightner case, Busch spent about 2 1/2 years in prison, work camps and halfway houses before his parole last February...
House Rep Thomas P. White (D-Worcester) and State Senator William Keating (D-Sharon) authored the bill. But House Rep. Frank Woodward (D-Walpole) was one of the bill's staunchest supporters. Woodward's 18-year-old daughter died in a car accident when her vehicle was hit by a drunk driver. His speech, in which he said she would have survived had she been wearing a seat belt, brought the house to its feet and won support for the bill from many legislators, Grossman said...