Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City. A young white male driving a 1989 Thunderbird slowly circles one of the worst blocks in the city. He nods toward a group of blacks hanging out at a corner. As his smartly dressed date whirs up her electric window, a clamoring pack of drug dealers surrounds the car. Money is hastily exchanged for a tiny cellophane bag of off-white crystals. The car peels away, fleeing the inner city, headed toward suburban safety. But the driver of the Thunderbird, his supply exhausted, will be back in only three hours, slowly circling the block...
With their profits squeezed, both Ford and General Motors are eager to strengthen their positions in the moneymaking high end of the luxury-car business. The automakers have fixed their gaze on Britain's Jaguar as the car of choice in the upscale market. Last week Ford declared that it may bid to buy Jaguar when the British government's restrictions on individual stakes in the firm expire at the end of next year. Ford currently controls 13% of Jaguar's stock...
...Spectors' car swerves to avoid a boy who has darted out into the road, and nice Michael (James Woods) mutters to his nice wife Linda (Glenn Close), "Some people should not be allowed to have children!" He is voicing a common belief that those who are having the most kids can't raise them, and those who can afford kids aren't having them. O.K. then. Who should raise the first generation of 21st century teenagers? The healthy, efficient yuppies, who just might be able to fit a child into their Filofax schedules? Or the chain-smoking unmarrieds...
DESPITE incidents like these, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) persistently claims that a two-car escort service satisfies the needs of the Harvard community. And the University continues to claim that an escort service run between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. is all the protection its students need...
...even on the less-busy nights, if you ask them how long it will be until the car arrives, the response is almost always "Five to 20 minutes, wait outside...