Word: volkswagen
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...shows an admirable indifference to pomp and circumstance. He tootles around Cambridge in an antiquated Volkswagen Beetle, newly repainted red. When he flies, he goes tourist class (and gets a wry pleasure out of occasionally seeing some grant-enriched professor in first). He seems quite unconcerned about his salary ($128,900), which is less than he pays several of his deans. He was the first president since 1911 who chose not to live in the presidential mansion in the Yard, preferring to remain in his colonial home in Elmwood. As he walks across the Yard, he often stoops to pick...
Little more than a day later, on a busy street in the Barbir area of Muslim- dominated West Beirut, a gray Volkswagen containing 165 lbs. of explosives blew up in another deafening blast. The force devastated a shopping center of 20 boutiques, set fire to dozens of cars and shattered the windows of Barbir Hospital. Though ambulances raced screaming to the scene, at least 25 people were killed and 170 wounded...
...Silliness sells when you're trying to get an ad to cut through the clutter." To keep viewers from wandering into the kitchen during the station break, many businesses are relying on skits that might have been staged by a bunch of sixth-graders. An ad for Bobby Gray Volkswagen-Mazda in Jackson, Miss., features nine car salesmen in matching sweatshirts, khaki pants and tennis shoes who stage an arrhythmic song-and-dance routine in the middle of an empty football stadium. While three of the performers pound out a funky beat on keyboard, drums and guitar, the other...
...Stevens, 38, owns a roomy turn-of-the-century house in Providence that Ozzie and Harriet could have lived in. The only telltale sign of Stevens' activism is a 1979 Volkswagen Rabbit parked outside and plastered with bumper stickers like I'M PRO CHOICE . . . AND I VOTE. "I kid my friends that putting a bumper sticker on a car is the big political act of the '80s," Stevens laughs. She has maintained her sense of humor and the sense of commitment that led her, as a senior at fashionable all-women Wheaton, to tutor poor black children in a Boston...
...potential conflict was resolved early last week when Needham announced that some of its executives were buying the company's Los Angeles office and forming a new agency of their own, taking along Honda and other clients. Automotive clients still represented by parts of the new holding company are Volkswagen and Audi (DDB) and Chrysler-Dodge (BBDO...