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...auto-industry axiom that the problem is not selling 'em, it's making 'em. The PT Cruiser is assembled in Toluca, Mexico, where about half the car parts, including the engine, are made. The Mexican plant has an eventual capacity of 180,000 cars but will only make 120,000 this year...
...same $1 trillion to let young workers invest in private accounts and pay seniors their benefits. Officials in both parties believe the ads have helped give Gore a recent edge with Florida voters, which is why the Democrats plan to keep running it. Which leads to another axiom of political advertising: if it's working, stick with...
...instead he just keeps reiterating its benefits and feasibility. "Maybe I didn't explain what I was trying to explain very well," he said in New Orleans on Thursday, before trotting out a middle-class family that would profit from his plan. "Let me start over." It is an axiom of politics that the side in trouble always uses as its first excuse that it has got a communication problem, not a substance problem. So Bush figures that if he could just explain his tax cut better, the voting public would like it more...
Despite the axiom that anyone who represents himself in court has a fool for a client, self-representation is booming--especially in family court. Cities that keep track say 60% to 90% of their divorce, custody and abuse cases include at least one party without a lawyer. In some places, that's an increase of about 50% over the past decade...
...when we are in an "audience" state, we can't really say that we exist. Everyone knows Descartes' famous axiom "I think, therefore I am," but Sartre came closer to the mark when he argued that to exist is to be perceived. To be invisible is to be dead. Thus, being part of an audience is a state entirely different than any other state during our lives...