Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon to consign AMC to the corporate scrap heap. Its rugged if hardly racy Jeep Cherokee line continues to grow in popularity. Moreover, the company has built a modern $340 million plant near Toronto that will turn out spiffy new models designed to change AMC's reputation as a producer of small, unexciting cars. Says AMC President Joseph Cappy: "We are finally poised for that turnaround we've been talking about for so long...
Saturday's mass abduction began to unfold when three men wearing olive- drab uniforms and the trademark red berets of the Lebanese special police entered the college campus at about 7 p.m. in what appeared to be a police patrol jeep. They had campus security guards round up a dozen of the school's teaching staff, saying they wanted to discuss new security arrangements. When the group had assembled, police said later, the terrorists picked out the four professors, "drew their guns and took them all away...
...thought they were regular policemen," reported a Lebanese campus guard. "They wore the red berets of the Squad 16 riot police, which made me unsuspicious. I was astonished to see them about ten minutes later racing out in a jeep with the professors. They were pointing guns to the professors' heads. One of them yelled at me, 'If you talk we shall finish...
...ourselves outside the ranch in the morning to grab the papers as soon as they were delivered. Dad went up the satellite tower at UCSB with a radio transmitter to scatter the airwaves so no news broadcasts could make it over there. And Mom cruised the hills in a jeep in case that rascal Col. North were trying to sneak in to brief the President. The important thing was that President Reagan not hear anything about this nasty Iran-Nicaragua business...
...constantly scours his surroundings for design ideas. His taste is eclectic, though not unpredictable: he is chronically hooked on classics. "I love jeans, cowboy boots, tweed jackets, pin-stripe suits, old race cars, Porsches, Indian blankets and baskets," he says. Lauren once chased down a Colorado cowboy whose battered jeep he wanted to buy on the spot. Observes WWD Editor McCarthy: "Everything he sees or does comes back to his work. He is totally consumed...