Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Subaru station wagon that rode like a dream, was lost in the line of duty in an accident on I-95 South in Fairfield, Conn. In the accident, two Crimson reporters narrowly escaped death when a roll of insulation fell from the back of a red Chevrolet pick-up truck driven by Brian J. Mola of Norwalk, Conn...
...increase, that he offered his tenants alternative low-rent housing and moving costs, that he spent $800,000 in repairs and renovations and has waited six years without one penny of this money reflected in his rents, and that his tenants have lived four years in "Cadillac" apartments paying "Chevrolet" rents...
Carl Nolte, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, spent his first few days in Saudi Arabia wandering around Dhahran's International Hotel, mostly reading pooled reports from his peers. Then he moved to Riyadh, where he sat in on military briefings. Finally, exasperated, he climbed into his rented Chevrolet Caprice and simply headed north. He got lost several times on the poorly marked roads but eventually hooked up with U.S. troops, who complained to him about everything from inadequate supplies to late paychecks. Nolte duly sent the news home. "If you sit around waiting for the scraps...
...front-wheel-drive transmission on the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado, and in the 1970s he was the leader in one of GM's biggest breakthroughs: the catalytic converter, a revolutionary antipollution device. Stempel has been groomed well for the chairman's post, having served as head of several divisions: Chevrolet, Pontiac, GM's Adam Opel subsidiary in Europe and the Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac group. He has never held a job in the finance department...
...road in 1966 to persuade skittish dealers of the merits of the front-wheel-drive Toronado. Later he helped defuse a bitter environmental fight at a major new plant site. Associates say he has a photographic memory for both faces and statistics. While Stempel was general manager of Chevrolet in the early 1980s, he gave a detailed presentation of 17 different vehicles, ranging from the subcompact Chevette to medium-duty trucks -- all without referring to notes. "It was an amazing performance," recalls a senior engineer...