Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to turn on a television set or radio without hearing Joe Garagiola, the baseball catcher turned pitchman, importuning customers to come in and collect $400 price rebates on all Chrysler models except for the most popular small cars like the Omni and Horizon. The company's advertising agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, and some 25 other suppliers and service agents are giving additional rebates of $100 to $500 to any of their employees who buy Chryslers. In addition, Chrysler since May has been granting its dealers special discounts that now range from $325 to $1,500 per auto. These cuts...
...company will launch its 1980 models on Oct. 12, and there is always the danger that the drummed-up demand now could take away from sales of the new cars. Also, the discounts being offered to buyers and dealers are so large that profit margins on each sale are small...
...which $520 million came directly from Ludwig's resources. He has carved from the rain forest four towns (the largest of which is Monte Dourado), as well as an 85-bed hospital, four schools, 4,500 miles of roads and trails, a 26-mile railroad, and three small airports. The project has attracted so many job seekers, peddlers and hangers-on that the population of the area has surged from almost nothing...
...Koranic proscription. Alcohol, music, dancing, mixed bathing all have been curtailed by the Iranian revolution. Americans find this zealotry sinister, but also quaint: How can almost childish pleasures (a tune on the radio, a day at the beach) deserve such puritanical hellfires? But Americans are also capable of a small chill of apprehension, a barely acknowledged thought about the prices that civilizations pay for their bad habits: If Iran has driven out its (presumably polluted) monarch and given itself over to a purification that demands even the interment of its beer bottles, then, by that logic, what punishment and what...
...dean added that he doesn't think quality of education is a function of the size of a class, noting, "There is no escape in a bad small class...