Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year by President Lee lacocca, but long lead times and lack of capital will prevent lacocca from making any significant product changes before 1982. So far his much promoted fiveyear, 50,000-mile protection plan has not done much to move Chrysler's top-heavy line of big cars out of the showrooms. Sales of the Omni and Horizon compacts have almost doubled since last year, but their production is limited because of a contract with Volkswagen, which makes the engine and produces only 300,000 a year...
Turning the subsidized lab operation into a commercial assembly line is a problem that has been occupying other researchers at La Jolla. They are now weighing two ocean-front sites, both near power plants...
That courage sets Baker a little apart from the long and distinguished line of American newspaper humorists who preceded him, a line that is older than the nation itself. The first regular humor column in the New World appeared in Boston's New-England Courant in 1722 under the byline "Mrs. Silence Dogood," a pseudonym for young Benjamin Franklin. In one typical effort, Dogood/Franklin needled Harvard for turning out budding scholars who were "as great blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited." Well, it seemed funny at the tune...
...ideas. "It's like analysis; you block out the time and see what comes out." If he writes what he thinks is a bad column, he does not wad it up and start over. He publishes it. "Observer" is not a single point in space but a curving line of ups and downs, and the sagging author figures he will have another shot at splendor in a couple of days...
...Broadway hit by John van Druten, Mama recounts the struggles of the Hansons, who are poor Norwegian immigrants in San Francisco. The play is intentionally sentimental, a celebration of family life. When the new production opened in Philadelphia in March, critics panned it. Too episodic, with a weak story line, they complained...