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After the car carrying the Harvard students spun on ice, the tractor-trailer truck made an attempt to avoid the car, but to no avail...
...carrying the Harvard students spun on ice and crashed into a tractor-trailer truck also heading north, Nedham said. He said the truck attempted to avoid the car, but to no avail...
Still, as with any great movie or music executive, Lutz's greatest asset is an uncanny sense of what makes a hit. He compares Detroit to Hollywood, arguing that in both cities, cost controls and clever marketing--while obviously important--will avail you little if you don't make popular products. And like many successful entertainment execs, he holds that focus groups will take you only so far: there's always an element of gut, and of risk. Lutz used his gut to propel a struggling Chrysler to greatness in the 1990s with a series of cars and trucks that...
...worst thing: "Jonathan Franzen will not be on the Oprah Winfrey Show because he is seemingly uncomfortable and conflicted about being chosen as a book-club selection. It is never my intention to make anyone uncomfortable or to cause anyone conflict." (Translation: Take that, egghead.) Franzen apologized, to no avail. Now his publisher is the one cringing...
...dear, it seems that a large rabid T-Rex named “thesis” has eaten my senior-year pie, dripping warm cherry filling all over my new winter white corduroys! “Shoot him! Shoot him!” I cry to no avail. The beast, unsatisfied with having eaten my pie, moves on to its next victim with that “no summa for you” grimace and “overdue library book fine” growl...