Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food, junk music, junk opinions. Where are we? Where is the nation beyond the highway? Civilization speaks through the public radio stations in the 90s on the FM dial. Back in North Carolina, somewhere south of High Point, National Public Radio's All Things Considered had come through the car speaker, talking of a book named Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls, about life in the mills as people moved into the cities from the sharecropper cabins glimpsed even at that moment, empty and ruined, through the leafy barriers of I-95 -- a landscape explained. In Maryland, the density and grace...
Sometimes I thought I was in the exploding spaceship or crashing car. I would transplant myself into the reality of the game. It made me work harder...
...While the consensus is that growth will slow to a laggard 1% or 2% early in 1988, there are no concrete signs so far of a drastic consumer-spending slowdown. Last week the Commerce Department reported that retail sales during October were up .7%, not including autos. Even with car purchases, which declined because of an end to rebate promotions, sales were off only a minuscule...
...time Jimmy went to Eton, he devoted much time and thought to playing the horses. At 16, he invested (pounds)10 in a three-horse parlay and collected (pounds)8,000. He decided that Eton was no longer worthy of his time. He bought himself a car and headed for Oxford, where although not enrolled as a student, he learned about chemin de fer and girls. When the subject of a career eventually came up, Jimmy served a brief stint in the Royal Artillery. He later went to Paris and joined his older brother Teddy in a tiny pharmaceutical business...
...troubles have also arrived in Laoag, 300 miles to the north in Ilocos Norte province. Four weeks ago David Bueno, a human-rights lawyer, was getting into his car when two men on a motorcycle shot him dead. The murder remains unsolved, like almost all such cases in the Philippines. "After David died," says Bueno's brother Excel, "people in tattered clothes and bare feet came to say, 'Thank you for your brother. Without him no one would have fought for us.' " But not a word of condolence came from Aquino's Human Rights Commission. "I want to support Cory...