Word: cars 
              
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 Dates: during 1990-1990 
         
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...wretched, household debt grew about 50% faster than disposable income. "I really try to get us on a savings plan," says Sarah Frazier, who lives with her husband Richard in Idyllwild, Calif. "We want to start a family someday, and it's getting harder and harder with food prices, car loans, interest payments and utilities. Just when you think you have a grasp on things, something changes...
Most Mysterious New Car Nissan's Zen-heavy TV commercials for the new luxury sedan Infiniti featured plenty of rocks, trees and other atmospherics. Just one thing was missing: the automobile. After slow-starting sales, the automaker finally changed tack and gave the camera-shy car the starring role...
Cleanest Machine For the first time, a major manufacturer said it would be able to mass-produce a nonpolluting car. GM's electric Impact would be twice as expensive to operate as a regular chariot, but ever improving batteries should eventually change that. Besides, isn't clean air worth something...
...killed when a gunman mistook their home for that of an enemy. Another neighbor, about three doors down, lost a son in a shooting, and rival gang members took revenge on the young man even after his death by riddling his coffin with bullets. The Hamptons' daughter had her car stolen, and police helicopters regularly buzzed their neighborhood...
...there are professional "greeters" at the door. The auto dealer in nearby Monroe made a toll call to find out if he was satisfied with a repair. Strangers always wave at him as they drive by. "One man, a white man, he had a whole arm out of the car. That's normal, natural around here," he says...