Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company should contract negotiations fail in September. And Justice Department trustbusters gave Chrysler permission to buy prototype emission-control and seat-belt systems from General Motors at a big saving in research and development costs. Many auto industry experts expect that Chrysler will survive, but as a smaller, less competitive entity. The company's best hopes are that the Government would not allow the industry to be dominated by GM and Ford alone, and that lacocca somehow will improve the company's shabby planning and marketing. Says Sperlich: "We are looking to old General Patton to kick...
...center's experts say that all these efforts were well worth it: the Bodega Bay lobsters are as tasty as, and often less rubbery than, their cousins from the sea. But there are still difficulties to overcome...
Baker is something less than that, and something more. His column walks the high wire between light humor and substantive comment, a balancing act so punishingly difficult that in the entire country there are not a dozen men and women who can be said to have the hang of the thing. Of these good humor men and women, Baker is consistently the most literate. What impresses Pulitzer judges and other journalists about Baker's high-wire heroics is not simply the talent that they require, though the requirement is very high, but Baker's extraordinary range...
...mind would want to be present at one ... A likelier explanation may be the tyranny of fashion. This theory gains support from the latest development on the party front, which is the replacement of weak wine with water. All over the East Coast this summer, and perhaps even in less benighted regions for all I know, ostensibly sane people are turning up at parties and ordering water. What is even more curious, they ask for imported water. American water isn't good enough for them...
...doctors will talk about how they work their magic. Abe Burrows, who won a Pulitzer Prize for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, is writing a book about his own 18 productions, but has less to say about What Makes Sammy Run ? and other hits he doctored. "It's like a plastic surgeon who sees a beautiful girl walking down the street," says Burrows. "He doesn't point to her and say, 'You should have seen her before I worked on her.'" If a show is a smash, the original team generally gets...