Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrators, who were joined by dozens of bystanders, sang protest songs which included the lyrics, "If Derek Bok gets in our way we're gonna roll right over...
...says Sarah Haynes, a Chrysler assembly-line worker now back at work after a five-year layoff. "If the workers are saying he's great, it ain't no jive." One morning last November, 2,000 employees gathered at Chrysler's Sterling Heights, Mich., assembly plant for the ceremonial roll-out of Chrysler's new sports sedans. The workers chatted. They smoked cigarettes and fidgeted. Then, when their boss strode out, they got excited. A chant rose...
...suitors have come bearing tax breaks, free land, cut-rate electricity and other goodies. The prize they are all pursuing: the site for the factory that will build the Saturn, a new small car designed by General Motors to be competitive with Japanese imports. The plant, expected to roll out its first models in 1988, will employ 6,000. So far, 24 Governors, along with dozens of city officials and local business groups, have besought GM to award them the plant. Last week, for example, New York's Governor Mario Cuomo made a personal pilgrimage to GM's Technical Center...
...gritty songs about lost affection and spiritual redemption earned rough- and-ready Tina Turner two 1985 Grammys, securing her crown as the comeback queen of rock 'n' roll. Next Turner's fans will get a chance to see her strut her tuff in Mad Max III, the Road Warrior sequel to be released this summer. For the latest installment of the adventure series, set in postapocalypse Australia, Turner, 46, plays Aunty Entity, the hardhearted ruler of a barbaric outpost known as Bartertown. No, love's got nothing to do with it; instead of falling for Swoon Symbol Mel Gibson...
...cable, an updated It Happened One Night with a junior prom live! soundtrack. But the putative story line--incompatible boy meets non-patible girl, girl rejects boy, girl and boy get thrown together on long trip, fall in love, break up, stumble back in love, kiss in moonlight, roll credits, sell cable rights, ad clicheum--stays mercifully irrelevant in what soon becomes a veritable impros comedy feast coated in Rob Reiner's relentless but unjaded satire...