Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...immediate cause of Chrysler's latest crisis was the reluctance of its dealers, whose lots are already packed with unsold cars, to order any more. This has forced the company to cancel plans to build some 15,000 cars in December. The dealers' decision means that Chrysler will have $100 million less than expected in the bank on New Year's Day. With January and February traditionally bad months in the car business, it was also apparent the company might soon be facing a negative net worth. That kind of financial slippage could block further Government...
...Coma, the bestselling novel that became a hit movie, greedy physicians have a nifty racket going: in order to acquire valuable organs for transplant surgery, they slip patients into unconsciousness, then declare them irreversibly braindamaged. If a recent television program in Britain were to be believed, Coma is not so far off the mark. The show, part of the BBC'S Panorama program, asked the question Transplants: Are the Donors Really Dead? The shocking answer: maybe...
This phase of Shaffer's career began with The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). In that play, Atahuallpa, who is both emperor and god of the Incas, is executed by the order of Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador. The most desolating moment of the play comes when Pizarro, who has lost faith in the Christian God, hopes against hope that Atahuallpa will be resurrected before his eyes. He is not. In Equus (1973), a boy blinds horses because he believes them to be gods who have witnessed his sinful transgressions. He duels with a psychoanalyst. Decrying his own dried...
...bank is not all that John Gabriel has destroyed. He jilted the only woman he loved, Gunhild's twin sister Ella Rentheim (Irene Worth) in order to climb the ladder of success. Dying of an unnamed malady, Ella returns to claim the Borkman's son Erhart (Freddie Lehne), whom she had reared during Borkman's disgrace. Gunhild wants him to redress the family honor. In a bitter confrontation scene, the two sisters drink from the cup oof the past as if it were vitriol...
...title formula is for a synthetic fuel invented by Nazi scientists. The conceit is that it has been kept off the market since World War II by the oil interests in order to keep up the price of crude. A sometime Los Angeles cop and his wife are killed when it looks as if they are about to go public with the secret. The search for their killers-and the precious equations they were killed for-leads Detective George C. Scott to Germany and Switzerland and to involvement not only with remnants of the Third Reich but with modern terrorists...