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...Cohen and Jerry Vreenfield, high school friends from Long Island, started Ben & Jerry's in Burlington four years ago. Now, at age 30, they tend strongly toward plumpness and prosperity. In place of the traditional seven-year-old boy who must be bribed with dasher-licking rights before he will turn the crank of the hand freezer, they use a reduction gear to make the paddles of the freezer in their wholesale plant turn slowly enough. At their ice-cream parlor, a rowdily redecorated former gas station, an elderly White Mountain Freezer Co. rock-salt-and-ice contraption chunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...Dasher Karen Blount took respectable thirds in both the 55 meter and 200 meter events, and with a win in the two mile relay to cap a perfect day, the trackster crew headed back to Cambridge to enjoy their first real two-day weekend in a very long time...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Tracksters Win Handily, Down Brown, Dartmouth | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

Buyers are also shunning the Scirocco and Dasher models, which cost up to $10,000. During the past two months, Datsun and Toyota sold fewer cars than a year ago, but Honda has sold more. Imports in November accounted for an estimated 24% of the U.S. market, as compared with nearly 30% earlier this year. The continued large number of imports led the House of Representatives last week to authorize the President to negotiate curbs on Japanese autos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Road Is Still Rocky | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...presidency has frozen government into stasis. Paradoxically, Carter gained power largely because of fragmentation of power, a fact duly acknowledged by Press Secretary Jody Powell in David Broder's latest book. The system has worked: Carter has fulfilled the prophesy of 1976 campaign chronicler James Wooten, who noted in "Dasher" that...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Glass Half Empty | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...biggest draw is price. In West Germany, a Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang cost about $10,400 each, compared with the sticker price of $9,700 for a VW Passat (which is called Dasher in the U.S.). The Chevy Caprice sells for about $14,000, or $1,000 less than the top-line Audi 100LS and $2,000 less than the BMW 525. Indeed, the dollar has declined so much that in some European countries, U.S. cars cost less than they did last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Love Affair in Germany | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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