Word: motorizer
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...curious additives. Dying is something that happens to your friend's act in Vegas or your rival's picture in Gotham. It is acceptable as metaphor, inconvenient as reality, something to be ignored in the hopes that it will go away, like a pinging in your Mercedes motor. It is a measure of this powerfully vicious and powerfully funny satire on Hollywood-undoubtedly the least benign movie about moviemakers ever released -that the only character with completely decent instincts is the runner's faithful dog, who stands by his man to the end, trying to call attention...
Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca is now making a bid to expand the company's shrunken dealer base. lacocca, a former president of Ford Motor Co., is even trying to persuade GM and Ford dealers to display Chrysler models alongside their own. He is gambling that his models will outdo the competition and that he can eventually take over some franchises. One St. Joseph, Mo., dealer who has been affiliated with Ford for 24 years is now outselling Fords with Chryslers by 3 to 1 off his showroom floor...
...shipped into the country this year. As coke experts like to point out, if all the international dealers who supply the drug to the U.S. market-not even including the retailers-were to form a single corporation, it would probably rank seventh on the FORTUNE 500 list, between Ford Motor Co. ($37 billion in revenue) and Gulf Oil Corp. ($26.5 billion). Last year street sales of cocaine, by far the most expensive drug on the market, reached an estimated $30 billion in the U.S. (Sales of marijuana, the runner-up and still the most widely used illicit drug, amounted...
...perspiration. They also flood at least three critical parts of the brain itself: the cerebral cortex, which governs higher mental activities like memory and reasoning; the hypothalamus (appetite, body temperature and sleep as well as such emotions as anger and fear); and the cerebellum (walking, balance and other motor activities...
...talked past midnight, sat in the deck chairs on the sundeck of the "Busted Flush" with the starry April sky overhead, talked quietly, and listened to the night. Creak and sigh of the waves against pilings, muted motor, noises of the fans and generators and pumps aboard the work boats and the play toys...