Word: tires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...global competition in the tire industry has intensified, overseas firms have rolled over their U.S. rivals and acquired many of them. In the past two years, such brands as Firestone and General Tire have been taken over by foreign manufacturers. Last week the U.S. ranks were further deflated when France's Michelin Group reached an agreement to take over Uniroyal Goodrich for $1.5 billion. The deal leaves Goodyear the last major U.S. contender...
...three days ago. People edge away when I park my usual vehicle, a large black four-wheel-drive Ford plow truck with red pinstriping and air horns. But the Miata gets passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists in bicycle suits. Other conspicuous cars are costly and imposing and draw hate waves, as they are intended to. Decent householders glare, knowing you couldn't own the thing unless you were a drug dealer or a peculating corpocrat. The Miata is relatively cheap, if one of your...
...like the health-care industry, must either contain costs now or risk becoming the monopoly of the wealthy, a condition that would be socially undesirable. The alternative is ever increasing prices, with the cost spread among parents, students, federal and state government, and private donors. Quality, as educators never tire of saying, costs money -- and there is no easy solution. Laments Frederick Bohen, senior vice president at Brown University: "We're talking about a bunch of lousy choices...
Acquaintances described DeLisle, who earned $31,200 a year as a service manager for a tire store, as hardworking and quiet. His wife, who had studied criminal justice in college, was rarely seen without the children. Wyandotte + police chief Edward Rothermal assured the Detroit Free Press, "This was a loving couple, good family people." Hundreds of area residents left toys and flowers at the accident site, in memory of the lost children and in sympathy for the parents...
With split-second timing, the rod tip is lifted and the battle begun. Since the fly is attached to the line with a gossamer-thin tippet, a fisherman must use the long, sensitive rod to tire the trout as it surges and runs, leaps and sometimes literally walks across the water's surface on its tail. There is no mistaking this magic. The fish explodes again, up through a silver shower of water, shaking its head in an effort to throw the hook. You notice the color. It is gorgeous, almost surreal. The trout's meaty flanks sport outrageous spots...