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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at it, the Japanese are coming over here and giving American workers good jobs, while American companies are closing factories and taking work overseas for low wages." In a sign of appreciation, Taylor recently traded in his 1987 Chrysler Fifth Avenue for a new Camry sedan that Toyota built just down Highway I-64 at its plant in Georgetown, Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYOTA ROAD USA | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...ruling, the high court threw out a $2 million damage award to an Alabama man who bought a new $40,000 BMW 535i without knowing that it had a slightly spruced-up paint job. BMW said it spent $601.37 to retouch the 1990 sedan after it had been damaged in shipping. But an Alabama jury awarded the plaintiff $4,000 in the 1992 case for loss of value and tacked on an additional $4 million in punitive damages, which the state supreme court later cut in half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZWATCH | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...figures about every conceivable car or truck. Want to know how much a dealer pays for that 1996 Honda Accord you've been eyeing? Or what kind of gasoline mileage it gets? Just log onto Edmund Publications http:www.enews.com/magazines/edmunds) which gives the invoice price of an LX sedan with standard features and antilock brakes as $17,531, in contrast to/ a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $19,840. The same listing notes that the midsize auto with automatic transmission gets a thrifty 23 m.p.g. in city driving and 31 m.p.g. on the open road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUYING A CAR WITHOUT THE OLD HASSLES | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

PERHAPS NO ONE FITS THE DESCRIPtion "innocent bystander" as well as Tina Bennis. Certainly when she let her husband John take their rundown 1977 Pontiac sedan to work one day in 1988, she did not count on him driving it into Detroit, picking up a prostitute, engaging in a sexual act in the car's front seat--and getting caught. Nor did she know that the state of Michigan would be legally permitted to seize the car involved in a prostitution arrest, even though, in this case, it was co-owned by Tina. With the support of an odd coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASTY ATTACK OF SEIZURE | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...story that appeared earlier this month in the twice-a-week Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. Just after dawn on Jan. 25, the paper's reporter spotted the 9th district Congressman and Eppard pulling out of her recently purchased $823,000 town house. She was driving her 1994 Dodge sedan, which bears the official-looking license plate "US House PA 9." Shuster, it turns out, has rented out his only Washington residence, and acknowledged last week that while Congress is in session he now spends two or three nights a week at Eppard's home or in his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TIES THAT BLIND | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

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