Word: fender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began marketing its Memory Wire bras in the U.S. for about $30. The new product avoids a difficulty common to many regular wire bras, which can become twisted and more rigid after each washing. What next for the wonder metal? Says a manufacturer of the alloy: "A dented automobile fender that could be returned to new with a blow dryer sounds great, but it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce...
...strategy. Rather, the setbacks are like road accidents during a cross- country rally in which the contestants are continually jockeying for position. Particularly when they feel their security has somehow been threatened, the Soviets can seem like road hogs, making it all the more likely that they will cause fender benders or worse along the way. They are aggressive but not reckless drivers...
...zealotry riles 50% of their lot. City Councilman Martin Devere, a businessman whose charges include Boothill cemetery, and a McNeely supporter, says that "anyone good in that job is bound to ruffle feathers." A local innkeeper says flatly, "I think he's an egomaniac. We had a little fender bender out front here, and you'd of thought it was Murder One. I mean, I know in a little town like this--we only have 1,700 people--he doesn't have much to do, but you should have seen...
...DOWN IN FLORIDA, SOME PEOPLE WHO CARE PASSIONATELY FOR WORLD WAR II AIRPLANES -- "WARBIRDS," THE DEVOTEES CALL THEM -- PUT ON A SHOW. ON FRIDAY THE P-51S AND THE C-46S AND THE B-25 BOMBERS CAME RUMBLING INTO TITUSVILLE OUT OF A FLAWLESS SKY (YOUR FAVORITE PAINT-AND-FENDER MAN COULDN'T SPRAY A BETTER ONE), AND ON SATURDAY 13,000 PEOPLE PAID TO WATCH THEM ALL FLY. IT WAS A SWEET, INNOCENT EXERCISE, FOR THE CROWD AS WELL AS THE PILOTS, AND NOSTALGIA CLUNG TO THE AIR LONG AFTER THE LAST LANDING...
Smith concedes that he would have been deeply disappointed if Perot had rejected GM. "We were seriously discussing buying a defunct college in Iowa, hiring scientific talent and teaching our people about data processing and electronics," Smith recalls. "With E.D.S., we weren't just buying a bumper and a fender. We were getting a running Indianapolis 500 racer at the starting line, already preparing to run away from the pack...