Word: auto
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...have to be living under a rock-or perhaps driving a Ford Pinto-to be unaware that Japanese auto manufacturers have conquered foreign markets. Toyota recently passed GM to become the world's largest carmaker, and even runner-up brands like Honda are in better shape than their struggling American counterparts. But back home, the news isn't so golden. Thanks to an aging, shrinking population and lackluster consumer spending, sales of full-size vehicles in Japan last year were the lowest since 1977. Mighty Toyota may have posted a record global profit of $18.6 billion...
...charged "more like a mature driver than a novice," recalls Martin Hines, owner of the Zip Kart racing company. "There was a little spark about him." That spark is now in full flame. Just 22, and in his rookie season in Formula One, Hamilton - the first black driver in auto racing's blue-ribbon championship - is tied for the lead in the drivers' standings. Following a third-place finish during the season opener in Australia last month, Hamilton sped to second place in Malaysia three weeks later. And by placing second in the Bahrain Grand Prix on April...
...Maybe, as a city boy who never owned an auto, I just don't get car movies. I rent a vehicle a few weeks a year, on vacation, and then use it mainly to go shopping. And though I recall with pleasure the summer day I drove my wife and film critic David Thomson through Death Valley in a 1990 Coupe de Ville with a temperature indicator on the dashboard - we hit 108 mph when the air outside was 108 degrees - my usual feeling behind the wheel is the apprehension that I'll be sideswiped by demon-driving jerks like...
...sign reading “The Magic Position,” evoking all the subtlety of a cabaret. When Björk’s video began with a close-up on a rusty faucet, we had no clue that seconds later she would be prancing about with uniformed auto mechanics. Thus, Lesson One: surprise us. Music videos ought to have tricks. Songs are brief, and the audience should be riveted for all four minutes. Next, we see Wolf slouching along, creating weird body shapes with his limp form. On the other hand, adorable Björk charmed, unabashedly leaping...
...round trip" loans described in Stockman's indictment last week. Then there is Rosy Scenario, a Cassandra in reverse, who gets carted out to proclaim that things are going to get better and better. Allegedly, false projections were also part of Stockman's arsenal of deceit in the auto-parts business, prosecutors charge...