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...will carry a $19,500 price tag and be promoted by Frank Sinatra. The rest of the company's product line is less impressive. Its older big cars, such as the Chrysler Cordoba and Dodge Mirada, look like forgotten orphans on the market. The small fuel-efficient Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon are now three years old; they face stiff competition from both Japanese imports and new American cars like the Ford Escort...
...collegiate get-up to the extra-lyrical remarks following "Boulevard," there remains the characteristic sense of earnestness taken only half-seriously. Holding out is no longer the mythic concept of embattled separateness familiar from "Father On" or "From Silver Lake," nor is it the sole property of the omni-virginal You and vestal She. Despite the synicism with which he regards himself, the hold-out is even in Browne, who incoming through artistic puberty has wised up to the ironies and fallacies implicit in holding out, yet held onto the faith he may pretend to have forsaken. He emerges here...
...last week's meeting, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and President J. Paul Bergmoser were driven up to the White House's northwest gate in a wine-red, four-door Dodge Omni (24 m.p.g. city and 31 m.p.g. highway). They not only dramatized their company's commitment to small cars but successfully upstaged their GM and Ford colleagues, who arrived in larger, albeit "down-sized," Pontiac and Lincoln cars. Right behind Iacocca came the United Auto Workers' Fraser in a compact, light blue Plymouth Horizon, with the $7,200 sticker price still on the window...
...well under $4,000; for example, the Toyota Corolla Tercel's base price is $3,698. The price tags on comparable U.S. subcompacts are significantly higher: $4,289 for a two-door Chevette hatchback, $4,492 for American Motors' Spirit D/L, $5,271 for the two-door Omni hatchback...
...around the publication of E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in 1975 and which has continued since. Beginning with a pre-publication front-page article in the New York Times and followed by numerous interviews with Wilson on television and in magazines such as House and Garden, People, OMNI and others, the implications of sociobiology for human social arrangements have been consistently emphasized. Invariably, this publicity has been favorable to sociobiology and even praised by the sociobiologists...