Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday night: For a town "under seige" by protesters planning to occupy a nuclear plant in five hours, Seabrook looks pretty dull--very dull, in fact. A steady drizzle replaces the afternoon's thick mist falling on Seabrook police car number 23. Through the treetops, red airplane warning lights shine on the cranes that just into the eastern sky from the construction site. The cranes are still now, and the only visible activity is at Dunkin' Donuts across the street, where a scraggly crowd orders crullers and coffee...
...rate of $2.95 an hour. "I don't like the work, which is dull and boring," he says, "but on my salary I have been able to marry, rent a small apartment and buy a car...
...outlook. We are in a hell of a mess and that's nothing to be proud of. The people at Chrysler look great even if the balance sheet looks lousy. It all comes down to the marketplace. We have to go head-to-head with every car there, and the key is the 1 million front-wheel-drive cars that we'll have in 1981. They'll have the same interior dimensions, but they'll be shorter, lighter and get 7 m.p.g. more on average than the compacts and subcompacts that they will replace. We will...
General Motors builds 70% of all big cars today, and they make a $2,000 profit on them while we're making $700 on little cars. On top of that, they've got Sevilles selling at $5,700 profit per car; we don't have those baubles in our candy store. And GM is the price leader; it's not going to raise its prices $ 1,000 on little cars just so we can break even. We're the underdog, but that means we've just got to do it smarter...
...autumn air in the garden, whispering softly (in case the bushes were bugged). Then, to pass the time, I thought of taking a drive. After ten minutes, restless and wanting to confer more privately with Haig, I asked the driver to stop the car at a place where Haig and I could walk. He pulled over at a spot where the trees lining the road suddenly opened up to reveal a small lake. Picnickers were spreading out their food on checkered tablecloths; couples were lying under the trees. The sky had the mellow blue of the early French autumn...