Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says one of them: "At least she doesn't stand in the wings with holy water like the wives of some Italian tenors." But Pavarotti manages only a handful of flying visits home to Modena. He misses family life. He is perplexed by his remoteness from his fast growing daughters?Lorenza, 17, Christina, 15, and Giuliana, 12?and he tends to worry about them and to compensate with strictness when he is there...
...long, but it is indisputably burning. The toughest issue in the negotiations for a new contract between General Motors and the auto workers was not demands for more pay for the U.A.W.'s 460,000 workers on GM's pay roll, but for increased benefits for its fast-growing legion of retired employees. A big reason why policymakers in Washington are agonizing heavily over Chrysler's petition for federal help is the stark fact that if the company were to close down, the nearly $1 billion in unfunded pension obligations that it would leave be hind could...
...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...
...years in the research and writing, Wolfe's most ambitious work is crammed with inside poop and racy incident that 19 years ago was ignored by what he terms the "proper Victorian Gents" of the press. The fast cars, booze, astro groupies, the envies and injuries of the military caste system were not part of what Americans would have considered the right stuff. Wolfe lays it all out in brilliantly staged Op Lit scenes: the tacky cocktail lounges of Cocoa Beach where one could hear the Horst Wessel Song sung by ex-rocket scientists of the Third Reich; Vice...
...their network in April, and they gave him an expensive ostrich-skin attaché case. Last June, Carson, vacationing on the French Riviera, found himself staying at the same hotel as ABC Executives Elton Rule and Fred Pierce. They went sailing, and Carson told friends that he developed a fast rapport with the men from...