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...sleek convertible that General Motors is formally unveiling in Detroit this week looks a bit out of place wearing the ornate Cadillac nameplate. The car has no fins, no bulk, virtually no chrome, not even a backseat. In fact, the new Allante (price: about $50,000) looks more like a sports car than the kind of Cadillac young, wealthy car buyers can remember their grandparents driving. But that is precisely what its creators at GM had hoped. Determined to shed the stodgy image that has caused the company to lose so many upscale U.S. buyers to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar...
...able to be comprehended by a person of average intelligence," said Griswold, former dean at the Law School. Such an approach ignores the mission to train professionals with practical concerns, he said. Law professors are often mired in theoretical concerns and give little practical guidance to their students, the bulk of whom will be practicing lawyers, he said...
When TIME editors scheduled this week's cover story on Designer Ralph Lauren, Bonnie Angelo, TIME's Eastern regional bureau chief, tackled the bulk of the reporting herself. "Most stories I've worked on have dealt with politics," she says, "so the fact that this one was about business interested...
Although the ICC ruling was a shock to Santa Fe officials, the Chicago- based company will not be devastated. Real estate, not railroads, accounted for the bulk of its 1985 revenues of $6.4 billion. The same, however, cannot be said for the less diversified Southern Pacific (1985 revenues: $2.5 billion), which has barely made a profit over the past three years. Before the merger, Southern faced bankruptcy, and that could once again be a possibility...
...worst incidents in the border area since Israel withdrew the bulk of its forces from Lebanon in June 1985 and established a narrow security zone in southern Lebanon. Two Syrian-backed groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the allied Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, claimed joint responsibility for the "seaborne suicide operation." Twelve hours later, Israel countered with a bombing raid that blew up an ammunition dump and several buildings at Ein el Hilweh, a Palestinian refugee camp near the port city of Sidon on the Lebanese coast...