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...small cars to someone else. American Motors Corp. indicated that it may soon pull the plug on its archaic Spirit and Concord models. That will leave AMC with only the four-wheel-drive Eagle and the hot-selling Alliance, which was developed and financed by its French partner, Renault...
...from the sale of its defense division, which builds tanks, to General Dynamics Corp.: that brought Chrysler $348.5 million. Ford and American Motors will show losses, despite healthy sales of Ford's Escort and the meteoric popularity of the Alliance, which AMC developed with its French partner, Renault...
Many other factors were involved in the car's demise, not the least of which was the DMC-12 itself. True enough, it was sleek and racy, with a stainless-steel skin, a corrosion-resistant, glass-reinforced plastic underbody, a 130-h.p. Renault engine and gull-wing swing-up doors borrowed from the 1954 Mercedes sport coupe. But, doors aside, car critics could find nothing distinctive or terribly special about it. One described it as "clunky." Still, the car had its fans...
When the Belfast operation was finally shut down, it left 350 unsecured creditors who were owed $60 million and might end up with nothing. An additional $120 million is owed to other creditors, including the British government. Renault, which made the De Lorean engine, is the biggest single commercial creditor; it is owed $17 million...
...himself, Coward avoids garishness, vulgarity and commonness of mind, and references to his own sex life are usually oblique and always discreet. In one entry, in which he takes a splenetic swipe at Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ("pretentious gibberish"), he goes on to attack Mary Renault's The Charioteer. "Oh dear," he says, "I do, do wish well-intentioned ladies would not write books about homosexuality. It takes the hero - soidisant - 300 pages to reconcile himself to being queer as a coot, and his soul-searching and deep, deep introspection is truly awful. There...