Word: clues
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...clearly had no idea what I was doing when I stumbled into an FM meeting one Thursday evening in February 2001. I showed up without ideas, without any clue at all as to how a magazine works or what the rules of the journalism game are. But I’m a little obsessed with magazines and it was easy to get caught up in the swirl of story lists, writers’ meetings and FM soirees. And it certainly didn’t hurt that on my first long assignment I was teamed up with the already-elected, already...
...portrait—which was itself valued at $25,000 to $30,000—served as an important clue for appraisers as to the chair’s origin. They originally theorized that chairs of that make were built in Newport, R.I., according to Judy Matthews, the show’s spokesperson...
None of that will fix a basic Touareg glitch: that strange name. After dealers heard it in 2002, some begged VW for a change of name, fearing that U.S. customers wouldn't have a clue about how to pronounce it. VW has tacitly admitted that they were right. Some of the first TV ads for the Touareg parody the pronunciation (which, for the record, is tour-egg). VW says Americans had difficulty pronouncing Passat when it launched. (Never mind fahrvergnugen.) But that doesn't dispel the sense that VW's marketing department is in triage mode. VW named the Touareg...
Deciphering off-year elections is like reading the first chapter in a novel. You wonder what's foreshadowing of bigger things to come and what's just a false clue designed to throw you off the track. California elected a Republican action hero as its governor. Now Mississippi has elected a Republican Washington Lobbyist as its governor. Good for Bush in 2004? Or is it a positive sign for outsiders, whether they're Republicans...
...engineers in the U.S. solely to monitor the Touareg, and has appointed a board member to oversee quality issues. None of that will fix a basic Touareg glitch: its name. After dealers heard it in 2002, some begged VW to change it, fearing U.S. customers wouldn't have a clue how to pronounce it. VW has tacitly admitted that they were right. Some of the first TV ads for the Touareg parody its pronunciation (which, for the record, is "tour-egg"). VW says that Americans had difficulty pronouncing Passat when it launched. But that doesn't dispel the sense that...