Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CCLN's stated purpose is to prevent overdevelopment by uniting neighborhood groups and urging the City Council to adopt downzoning measures. So far, the group has focused on aiding opponents of a 1530-car parking garage being built on Binney...
...Noid, Domino's says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel about secret societies in an 18th century Parisian prison...
When the Yugo subcompact was introduced into the U.S. four years ago, its promoters billed it as the next Volkswagen Beetle. But last week Global Motors, importer of the Yugoslav-made car, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The car's initial allure was its low base price, which started at $3,990 in 1985 and is now $4,349. But the car ran into competition from South Korea's Hyundai Excel, which began selling...
Moreover, the Yugo's reputation went downhill because of its bumpy handling and lack of amenities. Sales slumped from 48,532 autos in 1987 to 31,546 last year. Even so, the manufacturer, Zavodi Crvena Zastava, plans to take over its U.S. importer's operations and continue selling the car...
...concerned about such issues as world peace. And then I came to realize that these weren't peace symbols -- they were the hood ornament from a Mercedes. And they knew everything about a Mercedes, how much it cost, how fast it would go. They knew Mercedes as the car of choice of the drug dealer. Money, greed, reaches all through society...