Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...according to the account given by Assistant District Attorney Thomas Orloff, Newton was riding along in a new Lincoln Continental, when he was accosted by a group of prostitutes. One of the prostitutes called out something like "Hey, baby!" Newton jumped out of the car, Orloff says, and began arguing with one of them, Kathleen Smith, 17. The others ran. When they heard a shot fired, they turned back and saw Smith lying on the ground, shot in the head. The girl lingered in a coma for 96 days before she died...
...white and black, share the police suspicion of Newton and blame him for more than he has been charged with. The Oakland Tribune has published a number of stories suggesting that Panthers are dealing in drugs and extorting money from nightclubs, and one reporter covering these incidents had her car fire bombed...
...season when the industry considers a 60-day inventory of unsold cars to be normal, Chrysler has an 81-day supply; for some of its Japanese imports, including the Plymouth Sapporo and Arrow models, the sales backlog exceeds 150 days. For lack of models, the company has been virtually shut out of the full-size car market, which now constitutes 29% of industry sales. And when the company introduced its new full-size 1979 Chrysler New Yorker and Dodge St. Regis models with a vigorous publicity blitz in early October, it had almost no cars to sell because of production...
...Three, the company has never really nurtured a specific vision of the kinds of consumers it hoped to reach. Its customers tend to be older, less affluent and more conservative than those of Ford or General Motors. The Omni/Horizon, Detroit's first front-wheel-drive car, is a promising breakthrough, but Chrysler still faces a changing marketplace with limited financial resources...
Many industry analysts are skeptical that the arrival of one of Ford's better idea men can have much immediate impact. Says Ronald Glantz, a vice president of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "It takes three years under a crash program to design a new car. Whatever happens in '79, '80 and '81 will be due to the programs already in place." He adds: "The auto game in the '70s and the '80s will be fuel efficiency, space efficiency, ease of assembly-and none of those are Iacocca's strong points." But others disagree...