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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Automobile dealers have traditionally been a loyal lot, sticking by their carmaker through ups and downs. If a new-car dealer sold Ford Motor Co. products, buyers had to shop elsewhere for a General Motors car. But after the auto recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when some 5,000 dealers closed their doors, the survivors tried to reduce their dependence on a single company by carrying a host of different cars. Today so-called megadealers sell many makes, sometimes out of one-stop auto supermarkets, where customers can buy either a Mercedes-Benz or a Jeep. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pick a Car, Any Car | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...typical dealer sells about 400 cars a year; the megadealer sells at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pick a Car, Any Car | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

Pretty little middle-class chick comes to the Haight to see what it's all about & gets picked up by a seventeen-year-old street dealer who spends all day shooting her full of speed again & again, then feed her 3000 mikes & raffles off her temporarily unemployed body for the biggest Haight Street gang bang since the night before last...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Where Have the Hippies Gone? | 10/26/1985 | See Source »

...Numerous players had been associated with drugs during the twelve-day trial. Star athletes who were once heavy users, including the Kansas City Royals' Lonnie Smith, the Cincinnati Reds' Dave Parker and the New York Mets' Keith Hernandez, were granted immunity to testify against Strong. The convicted dealer faces a maximum sentence of 165 years in prison and $275,000 in fines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pittsburgh: Baseball's Dealer Takes a Loss | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...trial was Accused Cocaine Dealer Curtis Strong, but it was major league baseball on the defensive last week as testimony continued in a Pittsburgh federal court. Four more players took the stand to say that Strong had been a matchmaker in their love affairs with cocaine. They also kept naming names, bringing to 21 the number of current and former players alleged in court to have used coke. Shockingly, perhaps unfairly, the sorry tale of illegal drug involvement stretched back through the years to touch two of the game's immortals: Willie Stargell and Willie Mays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Cocaine Agonies Continue | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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