Word: jaguar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...costs about $18,900. The similarity is not the result of price fixing, says Colby President William Cotter. The reason, he says, is "that a Ford costs about the same as a Chevy," or in the case of Harvard and Yale, a BMW costs about the same as a Jaguar. Cotter admits that the market is not price sensitive. "A family decides on private vs. public," he says. "But then they don't pick the cheapest within the category...
...Choong, Daewoo Group; Philip *Knight, Nike; Gunter Kramer, BMW; George Lawrence, American Gas Assn.; Richard Maher, Christian Brothers Winery; Henri Michel, Aerospatiale; Mechlin Moore, Insurance Information Insti*tute; Hideo Nakao, NEC Electronics; Steven Ross, Warner Communications; Anton Rupert, Rembrandt Group; Robert Sinclair, Saab; Preston Robert Tisch, Loews; Graham Whitehead, Jaguar...
...which he wanted to become accustomed. He sports Hermes silk ties accented with a silver collar pin, well-tailored suits and monogrammed shirts with French cuffs. He and Alma live in a new four-bedroom town house just west of Washington's Rock Creek Park, with a sleek black Jaguar in the driveway. Their son Michael is a law student at the University of Delaware; daughter Tracy is a senior at Boston College...
Under the Jaguar Sun, a slender collection of three stories, grew from simpler roots still. Calvino's intention was to write a book about the five senses. Though the sequence is incomplete, each story continues Calvino's lifelong campaign to add more territory to the empire of the imagination; each discloses marvels in regions that were presumed exhausted...
...Brown's rap: shoppers, teenagers at a bus stop, liquor-store merchants, are all peppered with requests for money, cigarettes and food. "Spare some change?" Brown cries to a man carrying groceries, who lowers his head and scuttles away. "Excuse me!" he shouts to a man in a gray Jaguar, who flashes a frozen smile but keeps his window up and roars away the minute the light turns green. "What's up, pop?" he calls to an elderly couple, who hurriedly push past him. "Just keep asking, keep asking," says Brown after a particularly rude turndown. "Oh, this...