Word: share
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survive, Republicans figure they need a 15% share...
Chrysler started the model-year with only one new name plate and wound up 1977 with about 10% of the market, its lowest share since the early '60s. But the company has high hopes for its Omni compact, which made its debut last week. At a list of $3,706, the Omni is Detroit's first front-wheel-drive car with a transverse engine, and has earned Motor Trend magazine's "car of the year" award, which is usually a boost for sales...
What makes Disini's services so valued? It might be his very close friendship with President Ferdinand Marcos, a connection that, according to veteran observers in Manila, was invoked to win a major share of the government's nuclear plant construction contract for Disini's client, Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Electric Corp. Allegations about the suspicious nature of Disini's services recently prompted the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which is providing much of the financing for the project, to ask the Justice Department to determine whether Westinghouse made improper payments to a foreign business agent. Troubled...
...just as brilliant as when he first played the U.S. exactly 50 years ago. Last week in New York, the famed Ukrainian-born virtuoso celebrated the anniversary of that debut with some of the most electrifying music-making ever heard in Carnegie Hall, a hall that has had its share of excitement over the years...
Inklings has its share of moments. His protagonist, Jupe, 45, is a nice mixture of self-regard and self-loathing. He has convinced himself and his attractive, loving wife that "all the big books" have already been written. He feigns astonishment that "for the sake of some silly grabs at eternal life people would sacrifice secure jobs, loving families, decencies and proportion." Jupe finds such behavior vain and cannot keep himself any longer from imitating...