Word: peugeot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overthrow the Iranian government, was moving to a new hideout. With him were his pregnant wife Azar Reza'i and Ashraf Rabi'i, the wife of Paris-based Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi, and the Rajavis' year-old son. When Khiabani stepped out of his bulletproof Peugeot, a plainclothes Islamic Guard spotted him and radioed for help. Within minutes hundreds of government security forces converged on the scene...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the 390-vehicle Paris-to-Dakar rally lived up to its promise as "the last possible adventure in our epoch." Nine days into the harrowing 6,200-mile course, Thatcher, Co-Driver Charlotte Verney, 38, and Mechanic Jean Gamier suffered a broken axle on their Peugeot 504 and then vanished in the vast expanse of the Sahara. A search party, led by Algerian and French military planes and helicopters, crisscrossed the desert sky while trucks and Land Rovers traversed the rugged terrain. Finally, last week, on the sixth day of the trio's disappearance, they...
Renault is the world's fourth largest automotive firm.* It earned profits of $160 million last year, compared with a $349 million loss for privately owned rival Peugeot S.A. Well-heeled graduates of France's elite schools vie for jobs at Renault. So do assembly-line workers, whose tasks are made easier by an array of robots in some cases more sophisticated than those in Japan...
...surge toward profitability is due mostly to drastic reductions in corporate spending. Already burdened with $2.3 billion in debts, the firm has cut $2 billion from capital-spending plans by postponing or canceling new models. Instead of developing its own 1986 subcompact, it is cooperating with France's Peugeot in the joint design and construction of a new model. By closing plants and laying off workers, Chrysler has also slashed its fixed spending and operating costs by another $2 billion. It has closed eight plants, laid off 22,000 white-collar workers and put thousands of hourly workers...
...first driver, Mustapha, punches the accelerator of his Peugeot 504 station wagon and breaks into a smile. Peace has brought him tangible dividends. Each morning, for four times what he made from a day's hustle in Cairo, he takes Sinai-bound passengers on the 2½-hour trip to the Suez Canal. As the highway stretches into the desert, the horizon is broken only by an occasional military encampment, gas station or Marlboro billboard in Arabic. Soon clumps of palm trees signal the town of Ismailia and the Suez ferry dock at Qantara...