Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerned, as far as justice is concerned, Africa cannot stay with its arms crossed. It has got to do something to get rid of [Prime Minister] Ian Smith. I am not saying that all white Rhodesia must go-just the clique that holds power there. I am sure a lot of whites would like to stay in the country, and if they do, their rights as a minority group will be respected. I am not talking in the name of the national leaders of Zimbabwe, but they probably feel the same...
...Lots of Loans. The FTC'S ruling does not apply to contracts already in effect. Nor does it cover credit-card purchases (consumers are already protected under the Fair Credit Billing Act) or loans that the buyer himself arranges from a third party (an auto loan, say, from a bank). Rather, the regulation is aimed at credit deals set up by the seller -even if the seller only steers the consumer to a certain finance company. That adds up to a lot of business, says the FTC-$122 billion last year alone...
Mercedes after Mercedes after Mercedes. One might expect to see them at the Beverly Hills Hotel, or perhaps a drive-in movie in Kuwait-but at a factory's employee parking lot? Ah, but the factory belongs to the German automaker Daimler-Benz, whose employees may buy the company's prestigious product at a 21.5% discount. Last year Daimler-Benz's 129,000 workers snapped up 40,000 Mercedes, or 11.4% of total output. After one year, employees are free to resell their cars on the open market. These days they often get 10% more than they...
...while he was bombing in show business, Lemongello was succeeding in a lot of other fields. In Islip, he turned an egg-selling job into a distributorship, using the profits to invest in some gas stations, which he then swapped for a chain of coin-operated laundries. He was moving into land speculation and home building when he told the local Islip banker who was financing his housing deals about his moribund career as a crooner. The banker gave him an idea: If he could sell eggs and laundries and houses, why not himself...
...Burned-out pistons were a consistent problem, but even when running smoothly the car was no blue streak, failing to get within reach of the 180-m.p.h. speed probably necessary for qualification. With her best lap going into the last day of qualification a low 173.611, Guthrie had a lot of m.p.h.s to pick up before making the 500's starting field. Curiosity seekers, badgering journalists and sexist detractors all considered, what bothered Guthrie most was getting the car up to speed. "The rest," she said glumly, "you can roll with...