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...Vanagons in America during 1984. General Motors and Ford will not launch vans until early in 1985. Both firms chose to put out a line of small trucks before the minivans. To catch up, Ford has even taken the unusual step of displaying a mock-up of its slope-fronted Aerostar minivan at auto shows a full year before the official introduction. Says Sales Vice President Philip Benton: "We think there is a market for 600,000 minivans eventually, and we think ours is a winner." Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca and President Harold Sperlich first discussed building minivans...
...Cindy knew every slope in Europe, says McKinney. "Her absence has hit us all pretty hard." The team's usual manner is joking and sometimes even throwing confetti. "The Europeans used to laugh at our crazy spirit," Cooper says, "but now that we've started winning, it drives them up a wall...
...pioneers in land-use planning and management is Carl F. Steinitz, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Steinitz has been studying the Western slope of the Rocky Mountains near Gunnison...
...they are now much more elaborate. At Copper Mountain, infants from two months to two years are cared for by a pediatric nurse. Older chil dren then move on to the Belly Button Bakery, where they can play or make cookies all day or try the carpeted slope...
...talking to his guests was the part he liked best. He raised his snifter, and when he drank, the snifter pushed his half-spectacles from the tip of his nose to the bridge. When he removed the snifter, the eyeglasses slid back, like a beginning skier on a beginners slope...