Word: gills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gill, 38, owns an Oldsmobile dealership in Columbus, Ohio, that in the past year has moved $30 million worth of Achievas and '95 Auroras and whatnots out of its showroom and off the lot. Plenty of people bought new and used cars from this man, and he talks openly about how he got them to do so: "I never let a customer walk in my life. I had just one goal in life: to be the No. 1 volume dealer. What could I do to close that customer on the showroom floor now? Our approach was to deliver them...
Wait a minute. Tom Gill is still trying to sell Oldsmobiles in Columbus. Why is he describing his methods in the past tense...
...game? Had fun? That's what car dealers like Gill and Flow are saying these days, and the valedictory chorus is swelling. Of the 178,000 people who peddle new automobiles in the U.S., most form the brash bottom line between the products of Detroit's Big Three and potential customers. A growing number among these vendors of domestic wares are claiming to have found a kinder, more humane way to do their job. This new breed speaks, often in near evangelical terms, of basic values and touchy-feely sympathies that have traditionally been anathema in the cutthroat race...
...almost everyone else. Nineteen years after the fall of Saigon, it is not easy to persuade readers anywhere in the world to revisit the Vietnam War. That was the problem British literary agent Gill Coleridge faced when she tried to sell the rights to Ninh's Sorrow of War to American publishers in & 1992. "They all turned it down," says Coleridge. "I remember one said, 'We don't want to be told how badly we behaved in Vietnam...
...Gill is no fire-breathing radical. Nor is Bobby Agee, a 43-year-old funeral director who six years ago became the county's first black commissioner since Reconstruction. Yet Gill's road would not have been paved had he and other Chilton County blacks not voted for Agee seven times apiece -- legally. It was an act that, radical or not, put them in the vanguard of a ballot-casting experiment called cumulative voting, one of a brace of methods hailed by some as the future of suffrage but labeled antidemocratic by no less an authority than Bill Clinton...