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...Detroit expects the average auto buyer to trade in a car after three years, but there are plenty of people still driving their '65 Mustangs with 200,000 miles on the clock, almost unaware that it's 1980." Many owners trade Mustang parts and stories at regional swap meets...
...Stamford, Conn., and Palo Alto, Calif., two secretaries of the Xerox Corp. use electronic mail computers to swap and file memos from their bosses, thereby reducing to a minute's time a chore that previously would have involved typing letters and sending them coast to coast...
...politician in the traditional sense, yet he is a very good politician," says Robert Strauss, his campaign manager. "He doesn't like to sit around and swap political stories. It's not good relaxation for him. He's not a 'one-of-the-boys' kind. He'd rather have good music on, some of it classical and some of it country-and-western...
...phone about needing every vote and talked about returning to Wyoming to hunt with the delegate. Strauss's face broke into a grin as he put down the receiver. "We got those two back," he told Jordan. Strauss is a man who knows the value of a swap. He had raised money for many of the politicians here, done them countless favors, and now he was collecting for his side in return...
...July 7], we Brits are lured to the U.S. by reasonable hotel rates, cheap flights and a good exchange rate. But the thing that left an indelible impression on me was the friendly and hospitable natives, especially in the West. The unfailing willingness to have a chat, discuss politics, swap drinks and stories makes the U.S. top in the friendship league, followed by Germany, with France very definitely at the bottom...