Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, Chrysler spent money where it counted, notably on a $1 billion technical center where teams are developing a new generation of compact cars, among other creations, with little meddling from top brass. The company also committed $30 million to a training blitz last summer for its dealer and service networks, staging two-day workshops to prepare them for the new LH cars and the high expectations of drivers who have grown accustomed to imports...
...Chevrolet dealer in South Dakota, Rock earned a degree in psychology before embarking on a career that included posts at Buick and GMC Truck. At Oldsmobile, Rock began his revolution at the retail level, where he exhorted his dealers to emphasize customer service. He plans for Oldsmobile to become the first mainstream GM line to adopt the methods of the new Saturn division, which embraces higher standards of value, quality and service than other nameplates...
Belinda Augustin, a resident of North Cambridge, says she should be able to hang out with the friends she grew up with, without police interference. "I can't see why you wouldn't want me to talk to him because he's a drug dealer...that person is not always a drug dealer...I see good qualities in him," she says...
Making his rounds on New York City's night streets, a drug dealer named John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) feels doom gathering around him. The cops are taking an interest in him, one of his best clients is self-destructing, his boss (Susan Sarandon) is threatening to leave the trade, and an ex-lover (Dana Delany) will have nothing to do with him. In LIGHT SLEEPER, bad things happen to not- so-good people. Writer-director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Patty Hearst) likes to work the margins of American life, and he does so with a certain style. Also with literary...
...appropriation. He swiped somebody else's voice, altered his name twice and his nose once, sold 105% of himself to early investors. He took plenty from everyone and didn't give back much but a kind of low-level radiance. He was a gambler, yes, but even more a dealer; it was the trade he plied as a youth in Ohio gambling joints and later, for fun, in the casinos where he headlined. The hands are fast, the eyes dead. I deal the cards, you play 'em. I control your destiny and I don't give a damn...