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...that in all the 23 years since it was created by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator* and Hudson Motor Car Co., the company has never been able to find a secure niche in the auto market. It prospered in the late 1950s by bringing out the first U.S. compact, the Rambler, but then lost much of its market share when General Motors, Ford and Chrysler started making compacts too. In the mid-1960s it tried to compete against the Big Three by offering a wider range of car sizes and lost disastrously. In 1970 A.M.C. again anticipated public taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: American Motors Hangs In There | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...cars-yet Ford's 1976 volume still rose by almost 14%, to 2,256,000 autos. The company's strategy has been to put an almost equal marketing push behind restyled intermediate-size cars and standard-size cars, and they sold almost equally well. The boxy Granada compact was the company's top make, selling 387,423 cars, yet that was only a hair ahead of the standard Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Moving on a Fast Track into 1977 | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...love compact, should thus debate and give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

Since men form political compacts with winch to govern themselves, when any ruler transgresses the laws of nature or reason, then the governed may dissolve the compact. "In transgressing the law of nature," Locke wrote, "the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity, winch is that measure God has set to the actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDEPENDENCE: The Birth of a New America | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...Jefferson and Congress have fundamentally changed the argument. To make independence plausible, they have had to attack the authority of George himself, to demonstrate that royal as well as parliamentary abuses of the Colonies represent crimes sufficient to justify dissolving the social compact between King and Colonists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDEPENDENCE: The Birth of a New America | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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