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Word: concorde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were technologically competitive. Today it has just 1.7% of the U.S. market. AMC's only new models this year are the Renault 181, which it is importing from France, and a four-wheel-drive subcompact. By 1982 AMC may be phasing out the existing subcompact Spirit and compact Concord, leaving it with a Renault-designed small car to be built at its only surviving passenger car plant, in Kenosha, Wis. American Motors will probably become more and more of a French company as the '80s progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Uphill Battle | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...since the Battle of Concord has a shot been heard round the world like this. Televiewers in 50 other countries are as agog as U.S. audiences over who ambushed mean J.R. Ewing, played by Actor Larry Hagman, in the season finale of the high-rating Dallas series. A British bookmaker accepted wagers on the identity of J.R.'s assailant; betting $234,000, punters made Wife Sue Ellen's cowboy lover, Dusty, a 6 to 4 favorite even though he is presumed dead in a plane crash. With six other likely suspects, Dallas' producers are filming different versions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 9, 1980 | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

Many supporters of the crown found it prudent to flee to Boston where they could remain safe behind royal lines, and Cambridge became the boundary with the British Empire. That boundary was reinforced in the spring 1775, when, after starting the Revolutionary War in Lexington and Concord, British soldiers retreated into Boston. Behind them, Minutemen closed off the peninsula, camping 16,000 strong on Cambridge Common for months. When the soldiers needed barracks, Harvard agreeably moved to Concord for about a year. When the soldiers needed baths, they took them in the Charles River, often Sutton notes, "with disregard...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: More Than a College Town | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...founder of the Naropa Institute in Boulder. The Hare Krishnas have a communal house on Commonwealth Ave., and members of Unification Church and Divine Light Mission also have local ashrams. Scientology operates a mission and consults for a school in Cambridge. Transcendental Meditation has a large house on Concord Ave. where they teach classes and promote Maharishi International University, "fully accredited education for the Age of Enlightenment." (TM spokesmen asked not to be included in an article on spiritual, religious or healing groups because "we are a science of consciousness, unlike the others.") A quick scan of the phone book...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Tour of 'Benares on the Charles' | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

...Harvard golfers captured their second straight 36-hole Greater Boston Championship yesterday with a 26-stroke triumph at the Concord Country Club...

Author: By Gregg F. Clifton, | Title: Golfers Retain GBC Title | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

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