Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...returned to Washington to get her diploma, but quit when school officials insisted that she repeat a year. She worked as a sheet-rock finisher, making up to $275 a week, but was arrested twice in 1973 on charges that included shoplifting and carrying a concealed rifle in her car. She drew a suspended sentence for shoplifting...
...doing from 1968 to 1974, or whether he ever cast his syndicated eye upon the White House transcripts, but aside from this, one gets the sinking feeling that the "choices" he refers to in America are the choices of the free market system--where you can buy whatever color car you want--and the electoral process--where you can choose between the Republican and Democratic parties...
...week General Motors notified dealers by letter that the increase would not exceed 6%-thus in effect putting a tentative figure on the rises that all automakers have been talking about as necessary to recoup rising costs of materials and labor. A 6% increase would amount to $335 per car; added to average rises of $1,000 per car over the past two model years, it surely would not help lift auto sales out of the doldrums...
...profitable. They will need to further revamp its product line, which is currently top-heavy with models that have sold poorly in spite of cash rebates. But the company has far less money than either GM or Ford to spend on developing new models. Its share of the new-car market has fallen to 15% now from 19% five years ago, mainly because, according to critics, Chrysler has paid too much attention to engineering and bookkeeping and not enough to figuring out what car buyers really want. "We've been criticized for being dominated by financial guys...
...car racing, the contestants usu ally go too fast for anyone to see who is winning. If it is horse racing - as it is here- the animals usually kick up clouds of dust while the riders move up and down in the saddle so fast that no body can see who they are either...