Word: cougars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make a favorable impression for our friends from the great country of Russia." On the front steps, Band Director Louis Oliverio had arrayed his finest musicians. He had worked feverishly to get the music to the Soviet national anthem, obtained it less than 24 hours before, and now the Cougar band got through it without a hitch...
...from 16.8% in 1982. Ford, which held 22.8% of the domestic market as recently as 1978, unveiled a slimmed-down Continental Mark VII ($22,231) this month. The company has been betting heavily on its streamlined Ford Thunderbird ($13,093) sports coupe, introduced with its Mercury Cougar twin in February, and on the compact Ford Tempo ($7,557)-Mercury Topaz line that arrived last May. Ford said Thunderbird accounted for 2.6% of all U.S. auto sales in September. The Tempo-Topaz entry recorded an 88% sales gain in the third quarter, compared with the compact models Ford was selling...
...Fords is the $12,000 Thunderbird. Its looks have won raves from auto enthusiasts, but the car's performance in the showroom has been comparatively disappointing. Thunderbird sales for the second quarter of 1983 are up 203% over the same period last year, but sales of the Mercury Cougar, which has a similar but less radical profile, are up 447% compared with the same period in 1982. The public thus seems to want some change-but not too much...
...surely completed Broadway's decathlon. She scaled a 50-ft. wall in the original production of Jesus Christ Superstar, performed an acrobatic dance routine in Seesaw, and was sawed in half by The Magic Show's Doug Henning, then stuffed into a cage with a 200-lb. cougar. In the current Broadway hit Nine, Morris gives new meaning to the phrase physical-fitness buff. In one number, A Call from the Vatican, she does a feline, erotic exercise for which she is so barely dressed in such sheer black that she has worn through three costumes...
...front-wheel-drive subcompacts, the Ford Escort and the Mercury Lynx, are selling better. Ford has orders for 180,000 of them, and is expected to meet projected 1981 sales of 345,000. But Ford's larger cars, such as the Granada and the Mercury Cougar, continue to gather dust on show room floors. The company has already shut down plants in Atlanta and Chicago to reduce inventories of the slow-selling cars...