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Saturn. Aerodynamic but not particularly sexy, this compact from GM's all new division in Tennessee is slowly building a following among the import set. The best thing about Saturn is that the company is committed to buyer satisfaction. When it was discovered that an improper coolant was used in some of the cars earlier this year, all the 1,100 Saturn owners affected were notified. Every one got a car or a refund...
...very, very serious matter. It is not just that some of our urban schools are failing, but even in our gilded suburbs we are not doing the job we should for many of our kids. We have a program right now for trying to solve that, the New Compact for Learning...
This week Speth's institute will publish a "Compact for a New World," a proposed model for a way rich and poor nations might come to mutually beneficial agreements in Rio on the environment and development. Meeting in Washington last June, a group of activists, businessmen and politicians agreed that poorer southern nations would have an easier time accepting unpalatable initiatives on population stabilization, climate change and deforestation in return for a substantial quid pro quo. Its elements: debt forgiveness, direct financial aid to help end poverty, and technical help to reduce the poor nations' role in global environmental problems...
...useful application involves attempts to build compact, ultra-sensitive radio receivers...
This week the Dutch electronics giant Philips will unveil its Compact Disc Interactive system, also called CD-I, a $1,000 computerized CD player that can be hooked up to a standard TV set to play all manner of games and run interactive programs. Five years in the making, the VCR-size unit joins CDTV, | a similar machine that was introduced by Commodore in January, and CD-ROM, a system for playing CDs on Apple and IBM-compatible personal computers. Even Nintendo has announced plans to attach a compact-disc drive to the latest version of its video-game machine...