Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Auto manufacturers have not been enthusiastic about lemon laws, which are now under consideration in 35 state legislatures. "We already have adequate safeguards for the consumer," said a Ford Motor Company spokesman in New York, adding that Ford planned to establish a customer appeals board in Massachusetts this July...
...mysterious circumstances. If he had been set up, the rented car might have also been fixed so that Nut would have been left stranded on the deserted road at the mercy of a killer masquerading as a helpful passerby. It was equally possible that Nut might have left the motor running while he jumped out of his car to make a quick, and fatal, rendezvous...
...Reagan move benefited exactly one U.S. firm: Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Harley, perhaps best known for its big-engine "hogs," is the sole remaining U.S. manufacturer of the two-wheeled machines that have long been synonymous with American rebelliousness, restless individualism and the freedom of the endless highway...
Incredibly, it is beginning to look as if he might. Five years ago, lacocca was president of Ford Motor Co., and Chrysler's profits were about to careen off a cliff. In November 1978, four months after he got the ax at Ford, lacocca joined Chrysler as president. From that year through 1981, the company lost nearly $3.5 billion, easily the biggest bloodbath by any American company in history. In 1979, the company was so close to bankruptcy that only an act of Congress saved it, and despite the bailout, Chrysler has almost collapsed several times since. It is therefore...
...Calligraphers say that it is wrong to expect the resulting letters to resemble the modern sans-serif type faces that the children are simultaneously learning to read. Young hands can rarely produce the subtle but important nuances of printed type. The so-called ball-and-stick method requires exceptional motor coordination, and the effort spoils the handwriting of many youngsters for life...