Word: compact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comedy may chafe at this film's substitution of efficiency | for energy, of speed for style; they may yawn at an old mirror-image routine that Midler essays, which is lifted from Silent Comedian Max Linder and the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. But Big Business was designed as a compact car, not a classic. Once Director Jim Abrahams (Airplane!) hot-wires the mechanism, the plot takes care of itself, and the movie pretty genially takes care of any audience looking for frenetic summer fun. It's value for money to get two fish-out-of-water stories in one, especially...
...alliance with Mazda. Instead of continuing to engineer its own small cars, Ford decided to rely on an acknowledged expert. Each partner brings strengths to the collaboration: in general Ford provides the styling while Mazda supplies engineering and manufacturing expertise. The first Mazda-engineered Ford, an $8,500 compact called the Mercury Tracer, appeared in March 1987 and was followed two months later by the two-door Festiva subcompact ($5,900). Last year cars that Mazda helped develop accounted for 3% of Ford's sales, and that percentage will rise substantially with the introduction of the Probe...
...styling resembling a BMW. Also in the works: face-lifts for the Ranger pickup and Bronco II sport-utility vehicle; a nip and tuck for the Taurus; a version of the Aerostar van that will stretch 15 in. longer than the current 14 1/2-ft. model; and by 1991 a compact four-wheel-drive van designed by Nissan and made by Ford to compete with Chrysler's line of Voyagers and Caravans, which now command 49% of the U.S. minivan market...
...focus. It sustains. Outside my work, playing a supporting role, it is still music which gives me joy. I have no records for I have no stereo. I have never even seen a compact disc player...
...also produced more than 2,000 of its smaller CFM56, the industry's current top seller. The compact engine is well suited to the new generation of shorter-range planes, like Boeing's 737-300, which airlines are using on their growing number of hub-and-spoke routes. The core of the CFM56, originally a top-secret design intended for the B-1 bomber, was the most advanced available...