Word: motor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With that minute and 48 seconds of videotape, CBS-TV last week gave the nation a riveting summary of the core of the Government's case against the fallen business hero, charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his faltering De Lorean Motor Co. The broadcast came only nine days before jury selection was to start in the trial in Los Angeles. While CBS officials were pleased by their scoop, prosecutors and defense lawyers, plus many of the network's peers in journalism, denounced CBS for unnecessarily jeopardizing John De Lorean...
...from the third year of a depression that slashed auto sales to their lowest level in two decades and cost car manufacturers $5.5 billion in losses during 1980 and 1981. But the Big Three automakers have rebounded so strongly that they are now within reach of record profits. General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler together earned $2.9 billion in the first half of 1983, and analysts estimate that their combined income could reach $6.6 billion for the entire year. Says Louis Lataif, vice president and general manager of the Ford division of Ford Motors: "I have a feeling that...
Heart disease continues to decline but still tops the list of the 15 leading killers, a group that causes 89% of all American deaths. Cancer, at No. 2, is on the upswing as a cause of death. Fatalities from cerebrovascular disease, accidents, motor-vehicle collisions and chronic pulmonary disease are falling. Suicide leaped up the list from No. 10 to No. 8, principally because two ailments once ahead of it, chronic liver disease and atherosclerosis, continued to drop...
...Motor vehicles heading down Mem. Drive were funneled into a 300 ft. single line surrounded on either side by flares and squad cars. At the front of the line, police had set up bright searchlights to give their spiel to and look at the motorists...
...vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8, six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6, eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step was to distribute the handbills to the 9,000 River Rouge workmen...