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...Japanese automakers were raising their prices in the U.S., why not fill the gap they were leaving with a domestic subcompact that would sell for less than $6,000? Practically overnight, the No. 3 automaker put together a bargain intended to give U.S. car buyers a pleasant form of sticker shock. The automaker slashed the price of its front-wheel-drive Plymouth Horizon and Dodge Omni by $710 and tossed in options worth $684 for free. Chrysler calculated that it could still make a profit, partly because it had long since paid off the costs of developing the Horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chrysler Thinking Fast and Making Moves | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

This candidate still has trouble being recognized as the Republican choice. He lost his last-minute sticker campaign in the primary to Hyatt, who remained on the ballot, then withdrew after the results were announced...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: GOP Candidate Found: Campaign Still Needed | 9/30/1986 | See Source »

...rest stop in Pennsylvania, Mildred and Jim are sitting at a picnic table eating oranges. They are on their way home to Oklahoma from a vacation trip East. Their car has a sticker saying, JESUS LOVES COWBOYS . . . & cowgirls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Hard Driving | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...five times that amount on the outskirts of Washington or in New York's Westchester county. The tree-shaded, flower-filled white suburbs are as glistening, and the shopping malls as spectacular, as ever. In the jammed parking lot of Sandton City, a luxury mall outside Johannesburg, the bumper sticker of a cream- colored Mercedes last week carried these words: WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH, THE TOUGH GO SHOPPING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Life Behind the Walls | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...Stevens, 38, owns a roomy turn-of-the-century house in Providence that Ozzie and Harriet could have lived in. The only telltale sign of Stevens' activism is a 1979 Volkswagen Rabbit parked outside and plastered with bumper stickers like I'M PRO CHOICE . . . AND I VOTE. "I kid my friends that putting a bumper sticker on a car is the big political act of the '80s," Stevens laughs. She has maintained her sense of humor and the sense of commitment that led her, as a senior at fashionable all-women Wheaton, to tutor poor black children in a Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping a Sense of Commitment | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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