Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight went smoothly enough, I got a sporty little rental car in Minneapolis, and began the trek north into the heart of the Iron Range...
...story % began, TIME's Detroit bureau had amassed a bulging storehouse of information on him. The files date back to 1964, when the magazine produced the first of its four cover stories on Iacocca. Then a Ford executive, he had just launched what quickly became the hottest-selling new car in the U.S., the Mustang. While preparing for this week's cover story, Detroit Bureau Chief Paul Witteman found among the office records some of his own notes on Iacocca from 1978. "When I first saw him at the Ford annual meeting, he was keeping a low profile," Witteman recalls...
...Come in a car, leave in a coma." So read a Nebraska bar's ad for its happy hour, that afterwork party time when saloons sell spirits at a discount. But with concern growing that happy hours may lead to driving deaths, an increasing number of states are barring barroom discounts...
...book and in his conversation, he goes hardly a page or a half-minute without mentioning "guys"--specific guys or guys in the abstract, guys who build automobiles ("car guys") or sell automobiles or buy them. He is a big guy (6 ft. 1 in., 194 lbs.), a driven guy, an earthy, passionate, volatile, funny and profane guy, a talkative guy who tells it like it is, who grabs for gusto, who damns the torpedoes and plunges full speed ahead. He is a high- strung, stand-up guy, the consummate can-do guy, a guy who enjoys spending time...
...headquarters of Iraq's Rafidain Bank, Tehran claimed that one of its surface- to-surface missiles had hit the building; the Iraqis insisted that the bombing had been an act of sabotage. Later in the week, another enormous blast sent earthquake-style tremors through Baghdad. The Iraqis said a car bomb was involved...