Word: wagonful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known for lousy quality, high prices and crummy service. But no longer. Hisashi Honma, a 22-year-old salesman at a Ford dealership near Tokyo, can't get enough Mustangs, Tauruses and Mondeos for all the customers who want to buy them. One ordered a European-made Ford Mondeo wagon last month, even though he will have to wait three months for delivery. In May, Ford imported 2,500 of its muscular new Mustangs; they sold out in two months...
...find it a bit shameful and debasing to write about O.J. Simpson. I get the feeling that I have jumped on the band-wagon-payroll of a sleazy market tabloid, and that I have a duty to throw raw meat to lions...
...Yale Club of Boston planned an advertising campaign last year for which they developed a "jazzier, more appealing" mailing for graduates, says Murray Wheeler Jr., president of the club. And MIT alumni clubs jumped on the band wagon with bungijumping outings and Shakespeare festivals, according to Janet L. Serman, associate director of the MIT alumni association...
Being given an opinion column is like receiving your choice of vehicle and destination. Some of us choose low-slung sports cars, jump in and throw out the road maps. Quindlen chose a wood-paneled station wagon and was always, always, home before dark...
Belinda's exertions are not enough to save the show, or to keep theatrical institution Selsdon Mowbray on the wagon. Selsdon is the old dog who keeps a step ahead of the company, despite his intermittent deafness and propensity for napping. Ian Lithgow as Selsdon is yet another solid cast member as the troupe's elderly bane and balm. His Selsdon is undeniably aged, while carrying the confidence of endless theatrical experience on his stooped shoulders...