Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the mileage standards, the manufacturers are determined to go on making full-size, six-passenger cars. As GM Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy told TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Barrett Seaman, "It's one thing to talk about reinventing the automobile to get one that will go 50 miles on a gallon. It is another thing to talk about fleet averages. That means you have got to have some cars that get a lot more than 50 miles a gallon if you are going to have the bigger alternative models people in the past have found they needed to pull...
...previous eight years all together. Auto-Becker of Düsseldorf, the country's largest U.S. dealer, is spending $6 million to expand its showroom and hopes to sell 2,000 cars, up from 850 in 1978 and only 250 in 1977. "It is the In thing to own an American-made car now," explains Helmut Becker, sales manager for the firm. Adds Peter Baumgarten, a GM salesman in Munich: "West German prosperity has increased the size and price of German cars, while congested cities and autobahns have created a need for the kind of comfort European cars lack...
Doctors concede that this kind of fraternal "charity" hardly seems appropriate any longer for a group with such high incomes. But a more telling criticism of professional courtesy is that it can be a barrier to good medical care. For one thing, the donor physician often feels exploited and overburdened. Says Pediatrician Lee Bass, Wolfson's partner: "There is a subtle difference in how you feel about people who get free care in your office and those who pay." Also, doctors and their families frequently have misgivings about taking up another doctor's time. The result: quick, inadequate...
...their golf game or after a tour of a Napa Valley winery, the guests climb aboard their two-story inn. Then, after drinks and a meal, they watch movies in the lounge and roll on to the text stop. They are passengers on the newest thing in pampered tourism: the mobile motel. The Snoozer, as it is inevitably known, is a live-aboard bus with a bar, kitchen, sky lounge and eight mahogany-paneled passenger rooms, each with two beds, shower and toilet, radio, closed-circuit television, closet, dresser, heating and air conditioning. The first of ten vehicles...
...funny, wild and crazy guy." So read CBS's ad for Mister Dugan in TV Guide, and lots of viewers were probably looking forward to seeing any, wild and crazy guy last Sunday night, not to mention the redheaded knockout. But a not very funny thing happened on the way to the tube: just three days before the show was supposed to go on the air, Norman Lear's T.A.T. Communications Co. suddenly yanked it away, leaving CBS, which was still promoting it Thursday morning, with a yawning hole in the Sunday schedule...