Word: cutlass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manufacturers are pushing nearly every name plate they have into the field. Some, like the Oldsmobile Cutlass-the nation's most popular model this year-are not only being reduced in size and weight but also redesigned with boxy, hatchback-like profiles in order to retain interior passenger and cargo space. Oldsmobile will market the first mass-produced diesel models in U.S. auto history. Some lines will be scrapped altogether; Ford will drop its dated, slow-selling Comets and Mavericks and replace them with new compacts, the Fairmont and Zephyr, that will sport a lean European profile and rectangular...
...shrinking the size and weight of its cars. The public's approval of the lighter and crisply styled autos has delighted GM executives. Cadillac, which brought out its Mercedes-size Seville, experienced its best year ever in 1976. For the first time, Oldsmobile's intermediate-size Cutlass shoved aside Chevrolet and Ford to become the nation's bestselling single make (514,593 cars). Pontiac, which also concentrated on intermediate lines, scored an impressive 49.5% increase in sales...
...slender, aristocratic graduate of Exeter, Princeton and Harvard Law School, Du Pont stumped the state in a 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass that was driven by a college student. He preached fiscal integrity and charged Tribbitt with running the statehouse for partisan advantage. Du Pont told his audiences, "We have government of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians." Du Pont promises to run a lean, efficient administration, but he faces the likelihood of a large deficit and the certainty of a low bond rating in the state of Delaware...
...Independence is a triumph not only for Hancock but for the whole Boston delegation; yet their triumph is shadowed by the absence of James Otis. Accused of treason by the British customs commissioners in 1769, he publicly denounced them as liars. One of them attacked him with a cutlass and delivered such a severe blow to the head that Otis has since lost his reason. He was awarded ?2,000 in damages, but has never successfully resumed his career. He now lives in retirement, with intermittent spells of insanity...
...year of some 622,000 cars has been larger than the increases at all the other automakers combined. Among GM's leaders: the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and the Pontiac Grand Prix, both carrying base prices of $4,600 to $5,200, and its compact Chevy Nova and Oldsmobile Cutlass, which lists at $4,500 and has been the industry's top seller for two years running...