Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week progressed, however, the standard stump speech became laced with Carterisms. At a Democratic Party rally in Albuquerque, Mondale urged a new Government "close to the values we have learned in church." He added: "Washington seems distant, isolated, out of touch with the American people." Touring a 1,700-acre farm in Missouri, he described the family farm as "our most sacred institution" and blamed farmers' problems with some Government programs on "unknown, unelected, faceless bureaucrats...
...long run goes the rest of the auto industry-but what happens in the short run can be unpredictable. Especially in the new model year about to begin. For 1977, GM is putting on an amazing shrinking act: over the past two weeks, it has unveiled a gallery of standard-size cars that on the average are nearly a foot shorter and 700 lbs. lighter than their 1976 counterparts. Ford and Chrysler by contrast are making only minor changes, and ailing American Motors is actually making its glassy Pacer longer...
American Motors, whose best hope, the squat Pacer, was a terrific sales disappointment, lost $43.2 million in 1975. It has stretched the Pacer 4 in. to make it a station wagon. Gremlins and the intermediate Matadors are newly sweetened by having some of last year's options as standard equipment...
...pegged high enough to offset excessive cancellations. The result: charter fares will go down, but not dramatically. Pan American estimates the round-trip New York-London ABC fare at $350, not substantially below the $358 offered by another plan. Both charter fares, however, are far cheaper than the standard coach fare...
Died. Luther A. Weigle, 95, dean of the Yale Divinity School (1928-49); in New Haven, Conn. He was chairman of the committee that wrote the Revised Standard Version of the Bible (1938-52), using new translations of ancient texts and updating the King James Version to modern usage ("mortify" became "put to death...