Word: scirocco
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Schmücker's predecessor, Rudolf Leiding, tried to move in all three directions; in particular, he began phasing out production of the Beetle (only 200 a day are being made now) and shifting to the Rabbit and the sporty Scirocco. But Germany's tough labor unions are represented on VW's board, and the governments of the West German Federal Republic and the state of Lower Saxony own 40% of the company's stock. The labor and government interests formed an alliance that bitterly opposed any moves likely to cost jobs...
...these cars are rising faster than anything else the company makes. Last August, Volkswagen introduced the Passat, a conventional-shaped, water-cooled sedan. Renamed the Dasher for the American market, 9,273 have already been sold in the U.S. this year. A four-seat sports coupe dubbed the Scirocco debuted in Europe this winter and will soon appear...
...writing for visitors from Mars, as in Bad Characters with its loving description of a 5 & 10? store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with a fan that blew a withering scirocco; its tinny walls were embossed with a meaningless pattern of fleurs-de-lis; light, dim and reluctant, came through a fixture with a shade of some ersatz material," etc.). Author Stafford is best where her heart is, in fictitious Adams. Colo., a town she loves and hates in about equal measure...