Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night of June 3, 1973, a Chevrolet Caprice, driven by a woman, was forced off Interstate 57 in southern Cook County, Ill., by a car carrying four men. One of them pointed a 12-gauge pump shotgun at her, ordered her to strip and then to climb through a barbed-wire fence at the side of the road. As she begged for her life, her assailant thrust the shotgun barrel into her vagina and fired. After watching her agonies for several minutes, he finished her off with a blast to the throat. Less than an hour later, the marauding motorists...
...well behind opposition party members. In Andhra Pradesh, they were routed by followers of a new political party, founded last March by one of India's top movie stars, N.T. Rama Rao, 60. N.T.R., as he is known, campaigned from the back of a renovated 40-year-old Chevrolet, and beneath giant copies of his old movie posters, in favor of greater local autonomy. Never attacking Mrs. Gandhi by name, N.T.R. delivered a simple message: "India's leaders in their pursuit of power and personal gain have reduced the people to penury." Countered Mrs. Gandhi: "I like drama...
...venerable battlewagon is still awesome. Her 16-in. guns can hurl shells that weigh 2,700 Ibs. each (the weight of a Chevrolet) as far as 23 miles. She has been fitted with Toma hawk and Harpoon missiles, some with nuclear warheads; the Toma hawk can hit targets 1 ,500 miles away...
...that can be counted on to hold its value. It often claims that the life expectancy of its models on Swedish roads is 19.6 years. During the mid-1970s, however, the company was often slow shipping parts to U.S. dealers, causing repair delays. And some Detroit-built cars, notably Chevrolet's Camaro and Corvette, have kept their resale value better than Volvos...
...moment at least, there are no shortages of consumer goods. At Baghdad's sprawling Bab al Shurgy used-car market, demand is so strong that vehicles often sell for many times their original price: $52,000 for a 1981 Chevrolet Caprice and $242,000 for a 1980 Mercedes-Benz 2805. Saddam Hussein admitted to a group of American correspondents last week that he would soon have to impose austerity measures to help...