Word: maseratis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least, so he said, and for two years he never let anyone forget it. He drove the little white Honda CRX, he confided, only because he did not want to risk denting his Maserati. He helped out in a research lab for a measly $100 a week, he said, only because his family had cut him off when he failed to go to Harvard. He would not speak French, he said, only because Americans had such atrocious accents. He was fond of showing pictures of family mansions clipped out of magazines. When going away for a few days he would...
...then, Iacocca had acquired American Motors, Lamborghini and part of Maserati. He reports that his management team resisted the $1.2 billion AMC purchase, but he asserted his power of paterfamilias. Says he: "I heard everybody out, and then I overruled them." Iacocca's acquisitiveness seems somewhat at odds with his opinion of what is wrong with corporate America: merger mania, for one thing. He excoriates raiders and corporate chiefs who wage expensive takeover battles, leaving companies bloodied and indebted. He also faults political leaders for shortsighted partisanship: "All we do is finger-point." He particularly chides President Reagan, whom...
...friend of mine is one of the Junior 12, and it was a big thing to him because his parents had promised him a Maserati if he made it," said new member J. Peter Wagner '88, "No one's promised me a Maserati, but it's still a nice thing...
...slight compared with the margins on more expensive vehicles. "In the auto business, luxury and profits have become synonymous," says James Alexandre, who follows the industry for the investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. To help fill its luxury niche, Chrysler is gradually buying control of the Italian automaker Maserati. The first jointly produced car, priced at about $30,000 and code-named the Q- coupe, will be shipped from Italy late next year...
There has also been more argument and speculation about the contents of the album than about what happened at the Reykjavik summit. Yes, classics like Born to Run are there, jumping out of a superb audio mix like a Maserati off the mark. But so are Springsteen standards like Thunder Road and No Surrender, performed with newly spare instrumentation, sounding entirely different and stronger than ever. There are tunes Springsteen wrote for other performers that he has never recorded (Fire, Because the Night), as well as songs that he has borrowed from others (This Land Is Your Land, War, Raise...