Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past couple of weeks, the nation has watched itself roll toward ruin because people were losing their money in bales. If one were tasteless enough to ask a big loser what exactly he was losing, he would sputter, incredulous, "What am I losing? My boat! My car! My home, my beautiful home! My children's educations! Expensive schools! My clothes! My dinner! My dollars!" All true, every sorrowful word. People have been mourning the passing of their money for all the things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure cancers...
Anxiety was especially high in Detroit, where automakers feared the crash could deal a new blow to car sales, which are already slumping. Maryann Keller, a prominent auto analyst with Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney, a Manhattan-based investment firm, predicted that U.S. sales of cars and trucks would fall about 15% next year, to 9.5 million vehicles. One reason for her gloomy forecast, she said, was that the loss of wealth caused by the stock- market decline would have a "significant effect on consumer confidence and the ability to spend...
Prompted in part by the gyrating market and bleak sales prospects, Chrysler and General Motors said they would accelerate their cost-cutting campaigns. Noting that some people may now decide to put off the purchase of a car, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca announced that his company would speed up previously planned efforts to reduce its payroll. Iacocca intends by the end of the year to trim 3,500 white-collar employees from Chrysler's salaried work force of 38,000. In addition, the company will suspend production at an assembly plant in St. Louis for two weeks this month...
...kind is the "shifting block" puzzle. One puzzle in the exhibition required the user to move a "car" through "traffic" or even use four "walls" to surround a "dinosaur...
...Neumann, 24, helped Roberts slip across the border into East Germany in the trunk of a rented car in April...