Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restrain Curb from contravening his own policies when Brown is away.) Brown's speech won applause. Said he: "The Government is spending millions to move missiles around Utah. I think we could use that money to move people." But Dudley W. Dudley, the blond who heads the Kennedy drive in New Hampshire, got a bigger hand...
Occasionally Pavarotti will gather a few guests into his gray Mercedes for the two-hour drive to Modena. There, in the cobbled square in front of the city's handsome Romanesque cathedral, he is greeted familiarly as "Luciano" by seemingly hundreds of old friends and schoolmates, and as "Signor Tenore" by everyone else. His father, 65, still sings in the church choir and local chorus-and now enjoys the status of a recording artist, thanks to a few small roles on Pavarotti's albums. Both parents will join the Pavarotti ménage soon. Luciano plans to settle...
With auto sales sagging and 85,900 workers already laid off, the union was in no mood for a walkout. GM, benefiting from the successful introduction of its small, front-wheel-drive cars, .was also eager to avoid a shutdown...
...ailing Chrysler Corp. has been using $400 rebates and the pitching of Joe Garagiola to whittle down its huge inventory of unsold cars for a month now, but the firm's most important marketing drive is just beginning. Late last week the nation's No. 3 automaker submitted to Treasury Secretary G. William Miller a 27-page recovery plan with 90 pages of exhibits that laid bare inside details on profitability and marketing strategy of a kind that no automaker had ever before revealed. Said one Chrysler official: "We are really taking our pants off on this...
...fixed costs and the low prices it would have to charge, it would lose $43 for every such car produced in 1982. But the company does plan to reduce the number of basic car lines from five to three. Moreover, by 1985 all Chrysler cars will have front-wheel drive, a space-saving feature that only its fast-selling, American-built Omni and Horizon subcompacts have now. The company's basic goal is to expand its 10.2% share of the U.S. auto market to 12.4% by 1985, mainly by concentrating on small-car sales...