Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...m.p.g. average this year, the company must offset the thirst of its big models with increased production of little cars. But sales of its mainstay in that field, the Pinto, dropped after the disclosure in July that Pintos of '71 through '76 model-years have fuel tanks that have ruptured in rear-end crashes. So Ford redesigned the tank and is pushing Pinto sales hard. In July, the company began an incentive plan that pays dealers up to $325 for each '78 Pinto sold...
Institute for Policy Studies: Washington, D.C. radical think tank. Asked by 56 members of Congress to examine the federal budget for this year, rejected it, and wrote a new one. "The Federal Budget and Social Reconstruction," a landmark guide to what the government could...
...School for Democratic Management: The same people who bring you Mother Jones magazine (which uncovered the Ford Pinto gas tank scandal), San Francisco-based, the first alternative business school, for people in worker-controlled, collective and cooperative enterprises...
...dozen pro-Moscow leftist leaders were shifted abroad as ambassadors and later fired. Then the government turned on Brigadier Abdul Qadir, the Soviet-trained air force officer who helped bring it to power but was suspected of renewed ambitions. He is now in the detention barracks at Puli Charki tank base. The barracks are speedily being enlarged to house perhaps 1,000 centrist intellectuals, political extremists and dissident officers arrested by a worried government...
...Perez] to get water to keep it running. The doctors at Charity tried to get parish officials to help me find a place to live with running water, but none of them lifted a hand." Within a year, the doctors personally raised enough money to buy him a bigger tank and a pump. The day they were to be delivered, his wife died...