Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit's gloomy mood even extends to mighty General Motors, which lost $100 million on operations in the third quarter. Still stuck with 330,000 of the 1979 model autos and trucks, GM has started its own incentives of $100 to $400 per vehicle for dealers. Yet no come-ons are needed for small models. People attempting to buy the gas-sipping Chevrolet Citation and other GM "X-cars" have waited six months or more for delivery...
...other hand, it may be worth the trip to Toronto to fly Air Canada to London. The food was only half bad, says Ronay, the service super: "We came away in a good mood, feeling that we had been served by crews who worked as a team and took pride in their job and their country." On Delta, the food had some flavor and was gracefully served, which is not always true on the airline's domestic flights. High praise goes to "the smiling Irish eyes" of Aer Lingus' stewardesses, though the non-Hibernian meals would be rejected...
...openly homosexual real estate agent who called Feinstein and Kopp "Tweedledum and Tweedledee," won 10%. How his followers vote will be decisive in the runoff, and both candidates will be courting them in the next few weeks. They must do so while also appealing to an apparent conservative mood among other voters. San Franciscans defeated proposals to install strict rent controls, disband the city's vice squad and raise business taxes...
...years of experience and large numbers of patients (an estimated 100,000 people undergo treatment in the U.S. each year), no one is exactly sure how ECT works. According to one theory, the seizure affects the hypothalamus, a portion of the brain regulating production of the body's mood-controlling substances. What is known is that patients often do not recall either the treatment or any events immediately before it. But critics of ECT, even as it is practiced today, say that it can also cause permanent brain damage, including a loss of memory of events in the more...
Shot in Czechoslovakia last summer, this three-hour film is remarkably exact in mood, feeling and physical trappings...