Word: wheelings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Goizueta pounced again as Coca-Cola bought Merv Griffin Enterprises for an undisclosed sum, which some television analysts estimated at $200 million to $250 million. The new acquisition is expected to have earnings of $170 million this year, largely from the Merv Griffin Show and the popular game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! Coca-Cola also has shares in a number of joint ventures, including a 50% stake in a home video operation with...
...Association Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., in a new $100,000 dragster with no front tires at all. What he had instead, under an aerodynamic wraparound front end of his own design, was a couple of machine belts barely thick enough to keep the thing from running on its wheel rims...
...shift toward big cars. They believe that the sticker price of a car, rather than how much it may cost to operate the auto, is what customers now think about most when they enter a showroom. Whatever models consumers choose to buy, they may spend more time behind the wheel because of cheap gas. Economists expect to see an increase in cross-country driving this summer, which will benefit businesses around vacation spots from Disney World to the Grand Canyon...
...station's news shows? It is impossible to say. WBBM's news broadcasts, once ranked No. 1, have slipped to second place behind ABC-owned WLS. But the decline began several years ago, when Kurtis left for the CBS Morning News. WLS's potent schedule (the hugely popular Wheel of Fortune appears opposite the second half-hour of WBBM's 6 p.m. news show) and its vastly improved news programs have further siphoned off WBBM's audience. The CBS station has also been bedeviled by internal squabbling so severe that a shoving match once broke out in the newsroom...
...still drives drunk. I think he feels that there would be a certain romanticism in dying young, behind the wheel with beer in hand. It certainly would be an appropriate fate...