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...fall of 1980, they had been practically ready to go into production when he arrived two years earlier. (He still could not resist tinkering with the grille and adding louvers to the windows shortly before the designs were locked up.) Chrysler had botched the launch of the luxury New Yorker series in 1978, and the memory haunted lacocca. Now, with buyers clamoring for fuel-efficient cars and Chrysler short of cash, a trouble-free K-car rollout was critical...
...obvious with as much success as John McPhee. To hold readers through books about oranges, the New Jersey Pine Barrens or birchbark canoes is a tribute to his eye for narrative grain and hand for prose dovetails. The sanding and finishing are done by editors at The New Yorker, where McPhee's books first appear." In actuality, John McPhee's prose is written, sanded and polished by John McPhee...
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...save money. A standard dial phone, which is leased for 91? a month in Michigan, $1.50 in Oregon and $3.03 in New York, can be bought at American Bell stores for $35. While it would take a Michigan resident about three years to pay for the purchase, a New Yorker would save the price in lease fees in only twelve months. According to a New York City department of consumer affairs study, if all New Yorkers decided to buy their phones rather than lease, they would save $600 million over the six-year life of the phones...
...obvious with as much success as John McPhee. To hold readers through books about oranges, the New Jersey Pine Barrens or birchbark canoes is a tribute to his eye for narrative grain and hand for prose dovetails. The sanding and finishing are done by editors at The New Yorker, where McPhee's books first appear...