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...once smarmy image of infomercials, moreover, is starting to improve. Three years ago, in an effort to avoid government regulation, the makers of infomercials issued guidelines that asked manufacturers to substantiate the claims of their products. Stricter rules and an influx of such yuppie-swank companies as Volvo and Braun to the $750 million infomercial business have resulted in the marketing of fewer gadgets ending in the suffix o-matic. In addition, Barry Diller's purchase of QVC has given the entire home-shopping industry an element of cachet. Diller was introduced to QVC by his friend Diane Von Furstenberg...
...city where Yale could place a 70,000 seat stadium.) Your walk should be bearable because thousands of other college students will be making it with you. On your way, you'll pass New Haven's newest pride and joy, the Connecticut Tennis Center, home to the Volvo International Tennis Tournament...
...flesh and a small, misshapenscar. After no small amount of finagling, I cameup with two hand-held tape recorders, three oldNikons, three photographers, (my two roomates,Nick and Dave, and Dan, a longstanding friend,and, more importantly, an artist) two rolls of3200 speed film, and a '75 two-door Volvo. Safestcar on the road, they say. And with Dan at thewheel, we needed all the protection we could get.It was dark, it was raining, it was shoppingperiod...
Renault of France and Volvo of Sweden announced they would merge, forming the sixth largest automaker in the world and the second largest in Europe. The companies predict the marriage will save them $5.2 billion by the end of the century...
...neighborhood in which Joseph Gallardo's house burnt down isn't posh; despite abutting Seattle's Volvo-saturated suburbs, Snohomish County runs more to pickup trucks. But it is still a community, with lots of children and loving, anxious parents -- which is presumably why someone lit the match...