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...exaggerated reputation for fuel economy. True, the ten most fuel-efficient cars sold in the U.S. are all foreign makes. But the automen say most of the imports that are selling well are not significantly better on gas than the most abstemious U.S. cars. For instance, Toyota's compact Corona gets about the same mileage as Ford's Fairmont; the Corolla gets only slightly better mileage than the Chevette, which, with a rating of 26 m.p.g. in city driving and 36 m.p.g. on the highway, is the most gas-stingy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Surge in Smaller Cars | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...spine, mixing with an old Irish fiddle reel and the memorable lyric refrain, "Don't cry/ Don't raise your eye/ It's only teen-age wasteland"; the aching, almost elegant poignancy of The Song Is Over and Pure and Easy. All these songs concerned music and the compact of trust between audience and artist. As compositions they enhanced and extended the possibilities of rock. As Townshend wrote those songs, and The Who performed them, the truth of Townshend's contention became clear: "Rock has no limits." All that, and they can be danced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Head for the book department. Books are relatively harmless, and compact. What's more, they double as doorwedges for illiterate gift recipients. In a good bookstore, you can blow off your endless list in an hour...

Author: By Compiled BY Sue faludi, | Title: Season's Readings | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...begun the tedious and uncertain process of drawing the public-at-large into a coalition that currently exists only as a fragile compact among leaders of disparate organizations who have agreed temporarily to paper over their differences. Though its conference last weekend exhibited DA's continuing slow but steady growth, Democratic Agenda is only a beginning. If the Agenda platform is to provide a launchingpoint for greater economic democracy in America rather than an expedient steppingstone for a business-as-usual Kennedy candidacy, coalition members will have to work on permanently transforming the outlook of the electorate from...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach and James G. Hershberg, S | Title: Setting an Agenda for the '80s | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...putting a Concord compact body on a four-wheel Jeep-like drive train, the company has produced a new car that gets about 16 m.p.g. and sells for some $7,000. Name: the Eagle. It rides easily, stops quickly on icy roads, and is designed for doctors, firemen, people who drive snowplows and others in rough climes. AMC planned to build 50,000 in this model year, but reception has been so strong that there is talk of aiming toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AMC's Charge | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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