Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...m.p.g. highway). They not only dramatized their company's commitment to small cars but successfully upstaged their GM and Ford colleagues, who arrived in larger, albeit "down-sized," Pontiac and Lincoln cars. Right behind Iacocca came the United Auto Workers' Fraser in a compact, light blue Plymouth Horizon, with the $7,200 sticker price still on the window...
...Midwest and the Southwestern Oil Patch, Chiles' message does not seem to travel well. During a test of the radio spots in Manchester, N.H., residents said they were "irritated" by his Texas accent. Nonetheless, the tough, salty entrepreneur is preparing to expand his broadcast broadsides. On the horizon: a TV campaign now being tried out in Tucson, Oklahoma City and Florence, S.C. Chiles has toned down his language a bit for the medium, but there is no mistaking the wail of Mad Eddie...
...distant and complex. The idea of failure was acknowledged but locked away. It had to be. The belief that success can be achieved in such an exploit may be 60% of the effort. It is a beautiful scene, thought the officer as he swept his eyes far down the horizon, taking in each airplane. He mused as a warrior, sensing not the horrors of battle that might be coming but the pride and honor the men felt to be there, the singular essence of courage that only those who do such things can fully understand...
...years. At first he hardly wants to talk to Luke. "No good," he says to Ben Kenobi, who has hovered into view once again. "I cannot instruct him. The boy has no patience. Much anger in him, like his father. All his life has he looked away-to the horizon, to the sky, to the future. Never his mind on where he was, on what he was doing. Adventure, excitement. A Jedi craves not these things...
...idea of happiness, Hitchcock once said, was "a clear horizon, no clouds, no shadows. Nothing." Given a choice, it seems possible that he would have cho sen to live in a blank world rather than a chance universe, where the evil and the unexpected? perhaps they were the same thing to him ? could suddenly crowd in upon one, where everyone knew he was guilty of something, if not necessarily what he was being punished for. It is a measure of his achievement that he lit erally made light of these dark feelings, miraculously transforming them into deft and graceful popular...