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...catch: you have to buy a Mercedes-Benz. For the first time in its history, Daimler-Benz is resorting to an American-style gimmick to sell its luxury cars in the U.S. Because of the falling value of the dollar, the starting price in the U.S. for the smallest Mercedes, the 190 E 2.3, has risen by 32% over the past three years, to $29,000. As a result, U.S. sales have stalled, and the company has had to abandon its traditional take-it-or-leave-it attitude. Customers who take advantage of the Daimler-Benz offer can tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Come Fly With Us | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...could see that his mother in the gallery and his son at his side had more to do with a sixth victory surging out of him at 46 than did the oversize putter he waved jubilantly. "I wanted something with the largest possible moment of inertia and the smallest dispersion factor," he said at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Can't See Woods For the Tees | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Harvard, only a subway ride away from Boston Garden, had the smallest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "No, Cats, No" | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...family moved when the future Olympic champion was two. The story is often told that Charlie Blair received word of the birth of "yet another skater" over the public address system at the local rink. Bonnie the tot first ventured onto the ice with her shoes inside the smallest pair of figure skates her mother could find. "Skating was always part of our lives, and of course it became part of Bonnie's," says Eleanor Blair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Skater: Bonnie - the Blur - Blair | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...smallest turnout ever," said Jason McGinnis, who is the social chairman of the Bones Gate fraternity. He added that his fraternity cancelled its annual charity benefit party because members feared it would be impossible to comply with the policy and control the alcohol consumption among the 600 people who usually attend the event...

Author: By Suzanne F. Nossel, | Title: On the Ban-Wagon: Campus Crackdowns on Booze | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

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