Word: compact
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...building for months. High interest rates, an initial shortage of low-cost models and the unwillingness of customers to buy cars from a company that seemed about to go out of business have cut in half projected sales of the stylish, economical K-car. Even the once popular sub-compact Dodge Omnis and Plymouth Horizons are selling poorly, and dealers now have more than a 120-day supply, twice the desired amount. As the auto industry last week prepared for its annual holiday shutdown, only three of Chrysler's six assembly plants were operating. The company, which had once...
...story proceeds in flashback us ing Salieri as narrator. The device impedes the dynamics of the play and some times makes the Viennese court seem like a cynically corrupted version of Grover's Corners. Early on, when Salieri is 16, he kneels in prayer and makes a Faustian compact with God. He vows to excel in virtue, magnify his talents and live his life as a tribute to his creator if only God will grant him fame...
...fact, Chrysler's sales in November rose by 6.9% over the same period last year. But behind that figure stalks a lot of bad news. Chrysler is staking its survival on the success of its new compact K-cars, the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant. Despite the company's constant references to its "record-breaking" introduction, however, the two models are not doing well. Only 16,000 K-cars were sold in November, as compared with the company's target of 40,833. Gone with the poor sales figures...
...Lower Middle Class to a Cambridge/Loeb Drama Center audience risks a failure of communication: the gulf between Brecht's selfish characters clawing away at each other on the stage and the dainty gourmet shops sitting outside on Brattle St. seems wide enough to swallow Seven Deadly Sins' compact message. The great virtue of Alvin Epstein's American Repertory Theatre production is its dextrous explication of Brecht's easily garbled multiple ironies. Epstein uses his performers, music, dance, mime and even neon signs to illuminate Brecht's critique of the half-life of the bourgeoisie; he gives it such sober clarity...
Last week, while earthlings nearly a billion miles away marveled as they monitored its progress, an all-seeing but unmanned spacecraft no larger than a compact car completed the final and most spectacular phase of an epochal journey. Beating Buck Rogers and the faithful Wilma, sci-fi heroes of the pre-Star Trek generation, by five centuries, Voyager 1 brushed past the ringed planet Saturn, second largest member of the sun's family, and provided the best images yet of that strange and wondrous world, a far-off realm in the solar system never before glimpsed with such glittering...