Word: hummers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kaiser and then, in 1970, to American Motors. It inspired many AMC hot sellers, including the Wagoneer and the Cherokee, which have outsold the ailing carmaker's other models. As the civilian Jeep disappears, so will its military forebear: the Army plans to enlist a more elaborate vehicle, the Hummer...
...good old name, which seemed to capture the spunk of that sprightly warhorse. Now the Pentagon plans to change both with a sometimes klutzy replacement burdened by a certainly klutzy name: the High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). The manufacturer, AM General Corp., calls it the Hummer. No way, says the Army: that rhymes with bummer. It prefers "the HummVee," hardly a name likely to catch on with the average grunt...
...second floor of a former stove factory. The premises are shared by five workers and a seven-month-old, beer-guzzling Airedale named Porter. Thousand Oaks Brewing (1982 sales: $23,460) operates from the basement of the Berkeley, Calif, home of Charles and Diana Rixford. In Boulder, Colo., David Hummer, a University of Colorado astrogeophysicist, co-founded Boulder Brewing (1982 sales: $96,000) with two partners in what used to be the goat house of a farm...
...Says David Jones, an economist with the New York-based Government securities firm of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co.: "The Administration is doing too much, too fast, by imposing this superdeficit on top of the monetary restrictions needed to wind down a decade and a half of inflation." Adds Philip Hummer, a partner in the Chicago securities firm of Wayne Hummer & Co.: "The financial community gets very emotional about these high deficits. It is absolutely wrong to say that they do not matter. The trend is the most important element of all, and the deficit trend right now is terrible." Financiers...
What happened instead was a 14-0 ho- hummer with about as many thrills as a Life of Riley re-run, generous libations tucked away in countless cost pockets were about all that could keep the capacity crowd cheerful (and warm...