Word: dealerships
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...only trained salesmen are permitted to sell them, the untrained ones steer them away from the cars. Would-be Insight customers say they can't even find one to test-drive. "We don't direct people to the hybrid," allowed Honda salesman Neil Perlmutter at a North Hollywood, Calif., dealership. "It is for people who want high gas mileage, not for the masses." Juan Capdet, a salesman at Sheridan Toyota in Santa Monica, Calif., is an enthusiast, but he acknowledges, "There is a lot of misinformation. You have to explain the new technology...
...high-powered attorney with a violent streak, who despises her father yet feels the need to do something for her family by torturing those whom she thinks threaten it. This includes not only the father-son crime duo that has beaten Junior for interfering with their porn dealership, but also the team of cops who investigate the crime...
...together. This threat comes as the two cops find drugs in the house's basement and arrest Nora. To this challenge, the other characters respond each in her own fashion. Elizabeth captures and tortures one of Junior's assailants in the hope of making him confess to the drug dealership. Mary Ann confronts her father and finally comes to terms with him. Gail fetches Junior from the hospital, who, in an ironic twist, proves to have been in a secret alliance with Tom to clean the neighborhood of delinquency...
...Hillary Clinton has won New York, and we now have the saddest television image of the campaign to date. Rick Lazio, her opponent, taking his daughter with him into the ballot box - inside a Ford dealership. There's something so sad and small about the idea, about executing this grand, public, civic gesture in a private business, a car dealership, no less. Not to sound like Doris Kearns Goodwin here, but voting should take place in schools, in courthouses, settings that call to mind our common bond and the idea of aspiring to a better future. Places that call...
...gathering. His political sense drives him to promise a continuation; his vanity makes him promise change. And he's banking that if he explains himself long enough and well enough, voters will do their homework, vote with their heads and choose him over the red sports car in the dealership across the street...