Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...includes a talented management team, among them his successor, Sir Austin Bide, 68, and John Egan, 43, who was recruited in 1980 from Massey-Ferguson, the farm-equipment maker, to head BL's sputtering Jaguar division. In 1980 Jaguar was losing $1.5 million a week, and its sleek models had acquired a well-deserved reputation for shoddy workmanship and unreliability. Egan cut Jaguar's work force by nearly 30% and helped improve labor relations by holding family gatherings at the factory. In 1983 Jaguar produced 28,000 cars, compared with o 14,000 in 1980, and this year...
Dressed in sleek bodysuits and helmets, lugers lie on their backs inches above the ice, descending feet first at 70 m.p.h. or more. The problem is finding enough enthusiasts for the sport. There are only 250 competitors in the U.S. (Hey, kids, want to go to the Olympics? This could be your best bet.) Stanford University Junior Bonny Warner, the top woman slider on the improving squad, had never heard of luge four years ago. She won a magazine contest to be a 1980 Olympic flame carrier and on a lark attended a Lake Placid luge development camp. One ride...
...curves of their hoods.) The latest incarnation of the car as creature is NBC's Knight Rider, a computerized, talking Trans Am that is a lineal descendant (with a slight Freudian twist) of the grouchy 1928 Porter that haunted Jerry Van Dyke in My Mother the Car. Sleek and soigne, the car (with the sexually ambiguous name of Kitt) engages in flirty repartee with its pretty-boy driver, Michael Knight...
...spite of the current setbacks, Abidjan's skyline remains a tribute to the prosperity that has been generated under French-educated President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 78, who has ruled the country since it became independent from France in 1960. With its sleek office towers dominated by the elliptical 30-story post office building, the modular Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie and the new Abidjan Hilton, the city's profile is reminiscent of Florida's Epcot Center. Traffic across the Pont Général De Gaulle bustles every...
...Then the Christmas-to-New Year's week (traditionally the year's best for ticket sales) recorded a $6,058,815 total, the second highest in Broadway history. Last week magic struck again. Tom Stoppard's London success The Real Thing came to town in a sleek, solid new production that promises to be Broadway's first romantic comedy smash since Same Time, Next Year...