Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hays. One of the more bizarre spin-offs of Watergate was its literary industry; almost everyone, good guys and bad guys alike, the Deans, Haldemans, Jaworskis, Ehrlichmans, Colsons and so on, sat down at tape recorder and typewriter and produced books to cash in on the scandal. A headlong rush to excess profits was joined in the '70s by oil companies, sports stars negotiating multimillion-dollar contracts and writers whose most meretricious junk could command seven-figure advances...
...cars had to wait four to six months for delivery, and Chrysler Corp.'s popular Dodge Omnis and Plymouth Horizons were being sold before they reached the showrooms. The order backlog for Volkswagen's Pennsylvania-built diesel Rabbit remains long. But nowhere is the rush to gas sippers more evident than among the imports. While the overall sales of the U.S. auto firms have plunged, foreign makes are booming-so much so that as a group they have moved ahead of Ford and taken over the No. 2 spot in the U.S. car market for the first time...