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Here's how North American boss Wagoner explains it: "The sun's coming up on Oldsmobile, but we still have a couple of hours to go before first daylight. Chevrolet needs to get its [sales] volume base back. Pontiac is our sports segment, but the challenge is to take that image and convert it into more volume units. Oldsmobile needs to reposition itself to sophisticated, refined midsize-car buyers who will be new purchasers to GM. Buick's great focus will remain on premium American road cars, but it needs to recapture that traditional element from a younger customer base...
Tomorrow we lose an hour of sleep in that yearly spring event known as the change to daylight-saving time. We at Dartboard feel that this system unfairly discriminates against college students who lose not only winks, but their share of the sun in the antiquated ritual. (Granted, we certainly appreciate the extra hour added in the fall...
...students actually captured their share of the sun, drastic changes would throughout the country would follow. Happier students, complaining far less often, would emerge from their Generation X shells. The extra votes from 18-21-years olds would pour in for congressional candidates vowing to eliminate daylight-saving time...
...Dartboard would rally for the elimination of daylight-saving-time, but we fear our time would be wasted, as Boston's cloudiness masks most sunlight all day long...
There were other murders in Los Angeles that day. Corrie Williams, a senior at Centennial High School in Compton, was killed riding a bus in South Central in broad daylight, in a place people expect such things to happen. It was allegedly committed by gang members, who, a Los Angeles Times survey found, commit about half the nearly 2,000 homicides in the city each year. As L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan was calling the Ennis Cosby murder "priority No. 1," Bill Cosby linked his son's death to the Compton case. In a phone call, he told police chief Williams...