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...performed brain surgery. For ever so long now it would have been simple bad taste to buy a broad a rum-and-Coke, kid her along for a moment or two, and then expect to pry her legs apart immediately thereafter in the back seat of a gas-guzzler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quixote in the Kitchen | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...effects throughout the economy, they hesitated to set the precedent of bailing out a major corporation from a crisis of its own making. The auto industry has not only been blind to possible consumer reactions to escalating gasoline prices, but it has worked actively to keep the American gas-guzzler on the road. As recently as two years ago, the carmakers lobbied legislators working on the National Energy Act to postpone the proposed deadline for improving the gas mileage of their fleets. Ironically, with the drop in sales of larger cars and the consequent emphasis on compacts in Detroit...

Author: By Jonathan B. Propp, | Title: Detroit Breakdown | 4/24/1980 | See Source »

America's tenth largest industrial company is like an old gas guzzler hurtling along the dangerous edge of a cliff, and in this difficult year the road is trickier than usual. Chrysler Corp., long plagued by uncompetitive products and a lack of cash, is expected to follow its first quarter $53.8 million loss with a second quarter deficit that could come close to $200 million. The company may end the year with a loss of more than $400 million, double last year's $204.6 million deficit. Chairman John Riccardo has made a dozen trips to Washington since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler Drives for a Tax Break | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Eighteen years and one angst-guzzler later (Something Happened), Heller re-styles old reliable. Daneeka's catch-22 is now Potomac newspeak and the Doc himself is reincarnated as Ralph Newsome, a presidential aide who attempts to lure Bruce Gold, Ph.D., into Government service. Gold, a college professor, has caught the President's eye by favorably reviewing the Chief Executive's book, My Year in the White House, You can do and say anything you want, says Newsome, "as long as it's everything we tell you to say and do in support of our policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking About the Unspeakable | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...been hell. Nature's droppings paralyzed Harvard right in the middle of the week, leaving us with no excuse to sleep all day. Worse yet, the tube, our hallowed shrine, has been useless. Empty. Boring. Not even Sports Challenge or Roller Derby. Even the most dedicated armchair beer guzzler can't call As The World Turns sports...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Winter Sports | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

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