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Mountain bikes, also known as all-terrain bikes (ATBs), borrow sophisticated metal alloys, titanium lugs, carbon-fiber tubing and other materials from the aerospace industry for lightweight strength. Average weight: 28 lbs., vs. 20 lbs. for a far more fragile touring bike. Perhaps most important, ATBs feature flat handlebars for upright seating and thick tires that take to sand and gravel as easily as to pavement. While these features have practical appeal for rough-riding wilderness cyclists, the changes also take the hassle out of bike riding for ordinary pedal pushers who never stray more than a mile...
...business community has an even greater variety of nonbank choices to meets its financing needs. Blue-chip companies now turn elsewhere to borrow most of their money. Firms can raise short-term cash at lower rates by selling commercial paper; for longer-term money, they can issue bonds. Even small and medium-size firms, a vital source of business for banks, have many borrowing sources. The financing arms of General Electric, General Motors and Ford, which offer loans to businesses, are among the 10 largest financial institutions...
That position repelled some of the small parties that have been springing up and split others. Nikolai Travkin, head of the Democratic Party of Russia, withdrew promised support; he is under fire from dissenters who accuse him of being -- to borrow an old American term -- soft on communism. They plan to hold a founding congress of yet another new party, an oddly named Liberal- Conservative Union, in late September. This autumn seems likely to witness the birth not of a unified but of a still further splintered opposition...
Khouri's idea was, to borrow a term from old-time Hollywood writers, a nice little switcheroo -- logical, easy to explain and not too threatening in its originality. Moreover, the times were right for it. Everyone was complaining that there were too few good roles for women in American movies -- especially roles that permitted their characters to make their own decisions, control their own destiny. In fact, according to Mimi Polk, Thelma & Louise's producer, the movie did not "pitch well" to studio executives: "The script was full of subtlety that was lost in a two-sentence description." Polk feels...
Saudi officials even claim that the country is slightly strapped for cash. The government has been forced to borrow $7 billion to fulfill commitments to the U.S.-led alliance. Despite a wartime surge in oil production from 5.5 million to 8 million bbl. a day, Western economists estimate a budget deficit of $25 billion this year. Skittish about both the expense and foreign entanglements, Fahd has reneged on an agreement to base a Pan-Arab defense force composed primarily of Egyptian and Syrian troops on Saudi soil. The plan envisaged an exchange of Egyptian and Syrian military manpower for economic...