Word: pontiac
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...took home about $10,000 as a cabdriver. This year she expects to do better. But even with Terri working six-day weeks and her husband Philip driving a cab all seven days, they still can't scrape together a down payment on a house. Terri's 1985 Pontiac needs radiator and clutch work; Philip is still paying $160 a month on a 14-year-old Mazda pickup. "I'm making less money than ever in my whole life, and I'm working more," Terri says. "I have no life. The only thing that holds me together is my children...
...want for money. In the days leading to the Oklahoma bombing, he paid cash for his motel room in Junction City, Kansas; he paid cash for the Ryder truck that allegedly carried some 5,000 lbs. of explosives to Oklahoma; and he forked over $250 (and his old Pontiac) for the Mercury he was driving when he was arrested. In Kingman, Arizona, the owner of the trailer park where the suspect lived in 1993 says he saw McVeigh flashing around "a big wad of money." Investigators have told Time that McVeigh possesses some $10,000 in cash and bank accounts...
...campaign taught Buchanan a few lessons. For one, he has sold the Mercedes-Benz that earned him so much flak from the "Buy America" crowd. He plans to buy a Pontiac Bonneville as soon as he gets time to shop. In this year's superheated G.O.P. race, that opportunity may come sooner than he thinks...
...General Motors strike that started at an AC Delco plant in Flint, Michigan has now spread to nine more factories that produce some of the company's hottest products. The walkout has idled 30,900 workers. Plants in Pontiac, Lansing, Orion Township, Auburn Hills, and Buick City, Mich., as well as Doraville, Georgia, Janesville, Wisconsin, Ste. Therese, Quebec and Oshawa, Ontario were closed or crippled. The plants assemble cars on which GM is banking heavily, such as the Chevy Lumina and Pontiac Firebird, as well as the popular Chevy Suburban and Blazer sports utility vehicles, says TIME Detroit bureau chief...
...type of compact, one that approximates the flowing, sculpted looks and sheer drivability usually found only in sports and luxury cars -- in short, a kind of Everyman's Porsche. Ford's Contour and Mercury Mystique, Chrysler's Cirrus and Dodge Stratus, and GM's retooled Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire will feature from 120 to 170 h.p. (vs. 90 or under for many older compacts). Formerly upscale-only features like dual air bags, antilock brakes and automatic mirror controls will be standard, while options include leather interiors, dashboard CD players and special antitheft devices. Prices in this group start...