Word: corvair
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...Thornton Wilder across the continent, and set himself up as a country squire, the possessor of a first-edition mortgage-Bob Newhart with a plumber's helper. His wife's name was Barbara, and Barbara was saying, over wine, that she had a relative hurt in a Corvair...
...said that the Corvair was a little before his time, then sidestepped his interlocutors' curiosity about the trouble down at the local dealership. And what was it like to run an inn? Does it strain a marriage...
...linking up with Toyota, GM is making a virtue of necessity. Like other U.S. manufacturers, it has not been able to solve the manufacturing and financial equations of small cars. Design problems helped doom the Corvair in the 1960s and the Vega in the 1970s. The rear-wheel-drive Chevette, introduced in 1975, is obsolete and overdue for replacement. As a stopgap, GM has been planning to import 200,000 subcompacts made by Isuzu starting next year, and there are tentative plans to bring in up to 80,000 smaller minicars from Suzuki Motor Co. So far, the giant automaker...
...whirlies. It has become fashionable to characterize the court as leaderless (all the more so since the December publication of The Brethren, the Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong reconstruction of the court's inner workings that did for Warren Burger what Unsafe at Any Speed did for the Corvair). Paul Bender, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that no single Justice "commands respect for his substantive ideas the way Harlan or Frankfurter did. The Justices are all off in their own little directions, and no one has the presence to make the others coalesce around...
...both 1959 and 1970, the Big Three introduced new small cars to fight the imports. But successful small models such as the Ford Falcon grew heavier and weighted down with options. Others, such as GM's Corvair and Vega, which were widely criticized for poor engineering, sold badly. The imports rebounded unharmed from both assaults. Sales of imported cars, just 498,785 in 1960, had more than tripled...