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...scavenging of existing models, the cars Chrysler brings to market between 1982 and 1986 will cost $6.6 billion before they roll off the production line. For a company still struggling to stay out of the red, the sum is staggering. But almost anyone in Chrysler's finance department can tick off where the money will come from. Part of the total, some $823 million, was spent last year, and another $2.5 billion or so is in annual budgets through 1986. A large chunk is in hand in lacocca's $900 million cash kitty. And he is counting on generating...
...other. What little bloodshed both could cause was accidental, a messy byproduct of otherwise elegant planning. The Middle East, as it is and as Le Carré portrays it, offers no such leisure. The distance between theory and the front lines is a missed step, an incautious gesture. Watches tick, recording each second as a preamble to destruction...
...dance hours logged. Our feet hurt and our leg muscles beg for mercy, but like the climber who tackles the mountain "because it's there," we valiantly strive onward. Donna Summer's "Finger on the Trigger (Love is in Control)" propels us forward, though the minutes tick by more and more slowly...
SHORTLY AFTER Ronald Reagan was elected President, Political analysts began trying to figure out what made the man tick. Conclusions differed, but it was unanimously decided that Reagan's opposition to Marxism was deep, sincere, and very likely to share his foreign policy decisions. Since his inauguration, the President has surprised no one by turning many complex issues into "crucial" tests of strength between the superpowers. Reagan's three nation trip to Latin America, which begins tomorrow, promises to be a prime example of how policy becomes twisted when was the world is seen through rigid ideological blinders...
...really not that difficult to figure out what makes senior Jim Garvey tick. Garvey--a standout wingback on the football team--runs on relationships...