Word: tate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief cash crop of the area outside the twin cities of Bloomington and Normal, Ill. (combined pop. 83,384), is about to change from corn to cars. Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and Mitsubishi President Toyoo Tate announced last week that they had picked a 636-acre site just west of the central Illinois cities as the location for Diamond-Star Motors, a new joint venture. So named because Mitsubishi's corporate symbol consists of three diamonds and Chrysler's is a star, Diamond-Star plans to build 180,000 subcompact cars annually, beginning in 1988. Each company is investing about...
...Liquor already is the most highly taxed consumer product in the United States, more than cigarettes, more than gasoline," Tate said...
...Tate attributes the industry's recent troubles mostly to the heavy state and federal taxes levied on liquor production and sales...
Hard liquor sales have declined 2 percent each of the last five years, according to Lisa Tate, a spokesman for a national organization for the liquor industry. She estimated that the new tax increase will help reduce sales an additional five percent in the coming year...
...Government has hitherto used against organized crime and terrorists. Ten of the accused had pleaded guilty, and an eleventh changed his plea to guilty last week; at . least eight of these have drawn 20-year prison terms. One of the 23 has never been caught, and another, David Tate, is being held in Missouri to face charges of killing a state trooper...