Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dominated business, he once criticized U.S. policy on Viet Nam during a White House meeting in front of his banking boss and a Cabinet officer. During the Reagan years, according to another account, Reed has driven up to the same prestigious Pennsylvania Avenue address in a humble white Toyota compact. Now the whiz kid once dubbed "the Brat" is steering Citicorp on a radically different course from the one established by his expansion-minded predecessor, Walter Wriston...
Call it a case of deflated consumer attraction. Since March 1986, Ford has offered a driver-side, anticollision air bag as an $815 safety option on its Tempo and Mercury Topaz compact autos, which sell for a base price of about $9,000. Apparently the bag option has little allure for many buyers, who have bought the safety devices on only 2% of the 189,000 Tempo and Topaz cars sold since the 1987 model year began. Last week Ford tried to pump new life into its air bags by slashing the price to $295. The company hopes that will...
Americans are also sentimental, some would say gullible. Year after year, they enter into a compact with their leaders -- and trust them. Yet in the past two decades, that trust has often been betrayed; each time, Americans are disappointed and disillusioned anew. Last week, as a general turned businessman discussed lucrative foreign intrigues and the evening news flashed pictures of a presidential candidate on a yacht called Monkey Business, it was easy to feel duped, hard not to feel cynical...
...Northwestern University, "people were glum. There hadn't been a breakthrough in a long time. Funding was drying up. This has sent everyone back into the field with a new burst of enthusiasm." Although Kamerlingh Onnes envisioned early on that his discovery might pave the way for extremely powerful, compact electromagnets, he and other experimenters were stymied by a strange phenomenon: as soon as enough current was flowing through the then known superconductors (lead, tin and mercury, among others) to generate significant magnetic fields, the metals lost their superconductivity...
...Saul Bellow has never before had a novel turned into a film. It is hard to imagine anyone doing a better job. The adaptation, written by Ronald Ribman and directed by Fielder Cook, takes a few careful liberties with Bellow's story but packs its essence into a compact, ruefully funny and tensely moving 90 minutes. In odd but inspired casting, Robin Williams plays Tommy and delivers the best dramatic performance of his career. In past roles, Williams has sometimes seemed mechanical and pinched. Here his hyperactive face and vocal tics are orchestrated into a wrenching picture of panic...