Word: civic
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...auto industry wants to take another crack at it. A hybrid version of the Honda Civic, the best-selling compact car in America, started rolling into dealerships nationwide last week. Next year Ford, which has produced a string of electric cars, is expected to be the first U.S. manufacturer to introduce a hybrid vehicle. I took the politically correct version of the six-cylinder Escape for an exclusive spin earlier this month. Meanwhile, Toyota, General Motors and Chrysler have all promised a new crop of hybrid vehicles by 2004. J.D. Power & Associates, which tracks consumer tastes for the auto industry...
...hybrid Civic uses a smaller electric motor and a more powerful gas engine than the Prius, so it's always burning gas, except when it's braking or standing still. Even so, it gets 47 m.p.g. in the city and 51 m.p.g. on the freeway, approximately a 25% improvement over the gas-only version. Aside from a small hybrid logo on the trunk, it looks just like a regular Civic. About the only drawbacks are the higher sticker price ($19,550, roughly $2,500 more than a similarly equipped standard Civic) and slightly slower acceleration...
Wealth advisers say that your heirs should be told by their teens if they stand to inherit a sizable amount and should start learning how to manage it. Early disclosure gives you time to groom them for a life of philanthropy, civic duty or other worthy pursuits, should they elect not to work for money. If you doubt that your heirs are prepared, test them with an early gift and see what they do with it. If they mess up--say, by blowing it all on a series of vacations and paying for their friends too--or seem...
...Nesson pulls out of the cemetery parking lot in his two-door Honda Civic, a burned CD starts spinning in the stereo...
...Sketches of My Culture, Cornel West makes a traditionally elitist discourse palatable to the mass public with his radically-democratic prophetic voice. Rather than being praised for his overarching civic concern, West unfairly became the target of insult. The tragic irony is that faculty, students and colleagues hold West with utmost respect for his intellectual stature, compassionate character and brilliant insights. West empowers diverse and marginalized communities that traditionally are not privy to the rhetoric reserved for those within ivory towers. West ends his song with a challenge for professors, among others, to be on the front line...