Word: lighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weighing 2,500 Ibs. and having a wheelbase of 104 in., the new cars will be 800 lbs. lighter and 20 in. shorter than the compact cars they replace. But they will be slightly bigger and heavier than Chrysler's Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon and about 14 in. longer than Ford's Fiesta-three cars that GM's competitors have already introduced for the new era. Engineers estimate that the X cars will average 26 m.p.g. The cars will list for $4,100 to $4,500 with automatic transmission as an option. Independent, noncompany drivers...
...going to have the bigger alternative models people in the past have found they needed to pull a trailer or car ry a full-size family." The only way to sat isfy both the conflicting demands for in creased mileage and full-size cars is to make ever lighter models while sacrificing as little interior space as possible. To accomplish that, the industry is experiment ing with a bewildering variety of new materials and technologies...
...days in numbers that are too great to count, let alone mention. These products of the booming feel-good industry invariably try to evoke happiness, but they seldom describe or analyze it. That, of course, is the fascination of the scientific challenge. The feelgood trade's blizzard of lighter-than-air tracts proves nothing whatever about happiness except that a lot of people are willing to pay for help in pursuing...
...Florian has some delicious hot coffees--big mugs of capuccino, cafe au lait, and mocha mit schlag grace their dessert menu, which changes every day. The chocolate seven layer cake was a little dry, and the caramel topping was harder than a candy apple. For something a little lighter, try a slice of their white butter-cream cake with almonds...
...Christmas trees. A top-name pop composer. Vernon Gersch (Robert Klein), surveys the scene from his luxury apartment where he first meets Sonia Walsk (Lucie Arnaz), an aspiring lyricist much in awe of his success. When she picks up his solid-gold Oscar, she is astonished: "They're lighter than I thought!" Quips Vernon: "They're chocolate inside...