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...other things. Peter had trouble learning to write and was diagnosed as "learning disabled." The private school where the Brinkleys sent him cost $2,000 a year. Steve's aging Ford collapsed, and even though he replaced it with a $5,100 compact, the $200 monthly payments on the new car were not in the budget either. Two winters ago, the price of heating oil increased by more than 25%, and the utility bill jumped to $175. "Every time things seemed under control," says Jane, "some emergency would blow everything sky high...
...should refrain from trying to influence the outside world. It does mean that they should exert an influence by fostering the reasoned expression of ideas and arguments put forward by their individual members and not by taking institutional steps to inflict sanctions on others. Universities that violate this social compact do so at their peril. They cannot expect to remain free from interference if they insist on using their economic leverage in an effort to impose their own standards on the behavior of other organizations...
...demiurge behind this outpouring of books is Critic Edmund Wilson, who died ten years too early to see it occur. During much of his long career, Wilson lobbied in print and in private for "the possibility of bringing out in a complete and compact form the principal American classics." He particularly admired the French Pléiade editions and wanted the work of U.S. authors similarly collected and displayed "in beautifully produced and admirably printed thin-paper volumes, ranging from 800 to 1,500 pages...
Just after the 1973 oil embargo, the company created a special unit to develop new cars. The notable results include the RX-7 sports car, which gets about 24 m.p.g. from its improved Wankel engine, and the GLC. That compact is known as the Familia in Japan and the 323 in other parts of the world. Ford markets a version of its own, called the Laser, in 44 Asian countries. While the car looks suspiciously like a Volkswagen Rabbit, there is one important difference: the GLC sells for about $5,475, while a Rabbit costs...
Mazda's front-wheel-drive compact, known in the U.S. as the GLC (for Great Little Car), has become the world's third bestselling model after the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit. Mazda's RX7, the only rotary engine vehicle that the company exports, is the second most popular foreign sports car in America...