Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Automakers are confident they can keep on truckin' profitably. "Chris Cedergren, the automotive-industry analyst for J.D. Power & Associates, a West Coast marketing and consulting firm, expects truck sales in 1985 to increase 4.7% more. Buyers will have an even greater assortment of models to choose from in coming years. Both GM and Ford will introduce minivans next year, while AMC and Chrysler are preparing pickups for the 1986 and 1987 model years. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Meg Grant/Los Angeles and Paul A. Witteman/ Detroit
...brokers fought to get some of the action. The government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was selling off 50.2% of the company as part of a program to return some nationalized firms to private ownership. Around trading posts adorned with yellow balloons and huge red, green and blue plastic model telephones, 800 million Telecom shares changed hands, a London record for one day's activity in a single stock...
...savings can be big, even after the $8,000 or so is paid to ship a car from West Germany and adapt it to U.S. safety and emission standards. Example: a Mercedes 500 SEL, when bought from an authorized dealer in the U.S., is about $52,000. The same model bought in West Germany and imported by a U.S. buyer goes for some $40,000 after the extra charges. American auto dealers sometimes refuse to service a modified car or take one in trade. But as long as that huge price difference exists, the freelance importers will continue buying abroad...
Transporting the flowers from Dresden was a delicate process. Each model was mounted on cardboard and secured with wire. It was the placed in a cardboard box that was well-padded with tissue paper. Workers placed these containers in large wooden boxes padded with tissue which was then wrapped in burlap. The resulting containers were more than wrapped in burlap. The resulting containers were more than five feet tall...
Guides often tell the story of how Daniel Chester French, the same person who created the Lincoln Memorial, actually used a student model when sculpting the statue of John Harvard 100 years ago. No pictures of the University's benefactor have survived...