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Though sales of new convertibles have not lived up to optimistic projections, they remain popular. Chrysler has sold 11,867 LeBaron and Dodge 600 convertibles this year, and Ford has moved 8,739 topless Mustangs. Jim Roberto, sales manager of Denver's Skyline Dodge, says he sells rag-tops as fast as he receives them. This fall another convertible will debut: a canvas-top version of the American Motors sub-compact Renault Alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rekindling and Old Affair | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Serious policy lost out to the rag trade. Over-spending brought the country budget deficits and an unemployment rate proportionately higher than that of the United States. A series of disastrous budgets in recent years demonstrated his party's inability to adapt the economic thinking of the past decade to the current one. For fiscal reasons alone. Trudeau would not have won reelection...

Author: By Nicholas J. Mcconnell, | Title: Farewell Pierre | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...knocker, say I'm sick. I'm dead. I've got a People magazine so fat With reminiscent slush and self-congrat That I could barely lift it off the stoop. (Not from my door--I stole it off the some dupe) It seems this month the rag is ten years old; Too bad. I hoped that they were soon to fold. Their editer says their style is really new; They feature People, not people like...

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: PEOPLE, Not People Like You | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

...proved to be an encouraging way to finish off an otherwise depressing weekend Harvard came out on the short end of a disappointing 59-57 come-from-behind Penn victory Friday night, and the hoopsters opened sloppily on Saturday. Although Princeton committed 30 turnovers. Harvard still looked a bit rag-bag as it coughed up the bell 21 times...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Women Cagers Tally Year's Third Win | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

Only 1000 copies of the spring semester booklet have been printed, and a $3 a copy, Wilcox said he expects them to sell more briskly. Because it is printed on rag paper, Wilcox explained, overhead was lower, making the booklet "an ephemeral document at best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Core Book May Not Outlast Low Undergraduate Demand | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

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