Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost $4.2 billion in 1980, had profits of $6.3 billion in 1983 and nearly $10 billion in 1984. Sales last year reached 7.9 million cars, vs. 5.7 million in 1982. The agreements limited Japanese imports to about 20% of the U.S. market. When the imported cars became scarce, prices rose. The cost of the Nissan Maxima in the U.S. went up 30.1%, the Toyota Cressida 35.1%. The restrictions may have saved 44,000 U.S. jobs, but, says the study, they cost U.S. consumers more than $1 billion a year in increased car prices. Detroit's carmakers were disgruntled...
...time of his divorce, a combination of business sense, luck and geological knowledge had made Pickens a millionaire. At the heart of his fortune were the energy finds and lucrative investments that had been made by Mesa, which Pickens formed in 1964. Some properties acquired by Mesa rose staggeringly in value. In 1959, for example, Pickens scraped together $35,000 to invest in drilling sites in Canada. Mesa sank the income from those sites into new wells and in 1979 sold its Canadian operations to Dome Petroleum for $600 million...
...irrelevant to its ultimate importance. That's how an Egyptologist can justify his life's effort against that of a scriptwriter for Fridays. In Postscript, Eco tries to tell his colleagues that he hasn't pandered to the public, by offering explanations of why The Name of the Rose was such a hit with unsophisticated readers." Says Professor Eco: "I gave them back their fear and trembling in the face of sex, unknown languages, difficulties of thought, [and] mysteries of political life." He need the book to "construct the reader," leading even the lesser read into the patterns of thought...
This sorr of condescending professor talk limits Postscript's appeal, and unfortunately so. Eco rather interesting questions about literature and the craft of writing in general, but it's no fun to watch an author be little must of his audience. If you read The Name of the Rose on your lunch break at the assembly line, you might find its Postscript a had insulting. But no matter, if you go to Harvard and level The Name of the Rose, you'll get a kick out of Postscript...
...Postscript to the Name of the Rose emerges as a sort of printed faculty dinner conversation with Umberto Eco. The slim volume costs $8.95, about double the price of the original's paperback edition. Still, that's a bell of a lot cheaper than flying to Italy to catch Professor Eco's office hours...