Word: deltas
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ROBERT SOCIA Car Dealer After 17 years, General Motors is returning to South Africa in full force, buying out its majority partner, Delta Motor. Socia, 49, a GM veteran, arrives to manage the newly named GM South Africa. GM sees the unit, which turned out only about 40,000 cars last year and claimed an 11% market share, as a springboard for growth in Africa. Socia, who previously ran worldwide purchasing, including a cost-saving partnership with Fiat, will fold the division back into GM. The company left the operation at the end of 1986 to protest apartheid, then reappeared...
...already much talked about for the supple and intricate design proposals she exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in Manhattan and in a one-woman show last year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One of them is for a spa on the Okavango River Delta in Botswana. And we do mean "on"--the open-air guesthouses would float atop man-made "lily pads." Another plan is for her ingenious cross-shaped extreme-skiing facility in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, from which guests would be helicoptered to the highest slopes. "We had to come to grips...
...Virgin Islands. In 1968 he came up with the line "Wisk beats ring around the collar," reportedly after research found shirt-collar dirt to be among homemakers' peskiest wash problems. He also drummed into Americans' heads the notions that Tareyton smokers "would rather fight than switch" and that "Delta is ready when...
...James J. Jordan, Jr., the Shakespeare of sloganeers. If you?ve ever tried to purge from your memory such insistent phrases as ?Ring around the collar,? ?Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one,? ?How do you handle a hungry man??, ?Delta is ready when you are,? ?Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch? and ?Quaker Oatmeal - it?s the right thing to do? ... well, now you know who?s to blame...
...decorated veteran, honorably discharged after a tour of duty in the Mekong Delta, spoke in fierce terms during his daylong interview with The Crimson’s Samuel Z. Goldhaber...