The key element of evidence for the prosecution was a videotape showing DeLorean discussing the drugs deal with undercover FBI agents Benedict ( Ben ) Tisa and West, although DeLorean's attorney Howard Weitzman successfully demonstrated to the court that he was coerced into participation in the deal by the agents who initially approached him as legitimate investors.

The Vega was assigned to Chevrolet by corporate management, specifically by GM president Ed Cole, just weeks before DeLorean's 1969 arrival as Chevrolet division's general manager.

The name, which was DeLorean's idea, was inspired by the Ferrari 250 GTO, the successful race car.

The DeLorean DMC-12 ( commonly simply the DeLorean ) is a sports car manufactured by John DeLorean's DeLorean Motor Company for the American market in 1981-82.

Investment capital came primarily in the form of business loans from the Bank of America and from the formation of partnerships and private investment from select parties, including The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson and entertainers Roy Clark and Sammy Davis, Jr .. Money was also gained later through a dealer investment program in which those dealerships offering DeLorean's cars for sale were made shareholders in the company.

" By DeLorean's orders, tens of extra inspectors were assigned on the Vega assembly line and the first two thousand cars were road tested.

DeLorean's version was rejected because of GM's concern that his design would take away sales from the Corvette, their flagship performance vehicle, so instead they forced him to work with the existing Camaro design.

Instead, DeLorean's " ropeshaft " design was greenlighted.

DeLorean's father Zaharie was a Romanian immigrant, originally from Şugag, Alba County, who worked in a mill factory ; Zaharie emigrated to the United States when he was twenty.

DeLorean's mother, Kathryn, was an immigrant from Austria.

She was employed at the Carboloy Products Division of General Electric throughout much of DeLorean's early life.

DeLorean's parents divorced in 1942.

DeLorean's uncle Earl Pribak, a foreman at Chrysler's engineering garage, recommended that he apply for work at Chrysler and DeLorean agreed.

DeLorean's time at Chrysler lasted less than a year, ending when he was offered a US $ 14, 000 salary at Packard Motor Company under supervision of noted engineer Forest McFarland.

However, it proved to have a positive effect on DeLorean's attention to engineering detail, and after four years at Packard he became McFarland's successor as head of research and development.

DeLorean's years of engineering at Pontiac were highly successful and produced dozens of patented innovations for the company, and in 1961 he was promoted to the position of division chief engineer.

DeLorean's best-known contribution to Pontiac was the Pontiac GTO, widely considered the first muscle car.

DeLorean's most notable contribution to Pontiac was the Pontiac GTO ( Gran Turismo Omologato ), a muscle car named after the Ferrari 250 GTO.

The 1970 Chevrolet Nova was released behind schedule under DeLorean's leadership of GM's Chevrolet division.

The executive offices of General Motors headquarters continued to clash with DeLorean's nonconformity, and he was still not able to fit the traditional mold of conservatism that was usually expected of someone of his stature.

The one millionth Vega was built in May 1973, a month after DeLorean's GM resignation.

When the Back to the Future film came out in 1985, featuring DeLorean's namesake car, DeLorean wrote a letter to Bob Gale, one of the movie's producers and writers, thanking him for immortalizing the car in the film.

Marty locates Doc, although the DeLorean's fuel line is punctured during his arrival, rendering it unable to move under its own power.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.

In contrast to Newton's vision of wretchedness as his willful sin and distance from God, wretchedness has instead come to mean an obstacle of physical, social, or spiritual nature to overcome in order to achieve a state of grace, happiness, or contentment.

Peter has a vision in which a voice commands him to eat a variety of impure animals.

The human eye has a characteristic called Persistence of vision.

Daniel has a lengthy vision ( 10: 1-12: 13 ) in the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, around 536 BCE, regarding conflicts between the " King of the North " and the " King of the South " (= Egypt, 11: 8 ).

* The final temple vision, in which Ezekiel is transported to Jerusalem and sees a new commonwealth centered around a new Temple to which God's glory has returned ( Ezekiel 40-48 )

Like Isaiah, the book has a vision of the punishment of Israel and creation of a " remnant ", followed by world peace centred on Zion under the leadership of a new Davidic monarch ; the people should do justice, turn to Yahweh, and await the end of their punishment.

Like the vision of Banquo's lineage, the banquet scene has also been the subject of criticism.

Chicano identity has expanded from its political origins to incorporate a broader community vision of social integration and nonpartisan political participation.

The prophet has a vision of the angel Gabriel, who tells him, " Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city ( i. e., Israel and Jerusalem ).

" 65: 17 The author of Revelation has a corresponding vision: " I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.

A theme in the development of this field has been to duplicate the abilities of human vision by electronically perceiving and understanding an image.

Computer vision has also been described as the enterprise of automating and integrating a wide range of processes and representations for vision perception.

Some flee Chapterhouse, notably Sheeana, who has a vision of her own, and is joined by Duncan.

Mitter has observed that, ironically, today's China is closer to Chiang's vision than to Mao Zedong's.

When she is six years old, Laura has a vision of a beautiful visitor in her bedchamber.

It has applications that include probability, statistics, computer vision, image and signal processing, electrical engineering, and differential equations.

Consilience has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process, a vision at odds with mystical views in many cultures that surrounded the Hellenes.

Theoretically, Henry doesn't know that he has seen a barn, despite both his belief that he has seen one being true and his belief being formed on the basis of a reliable process ( i. e. his vision ), since he only acquired his true belief by accident.