Word: drives
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...late 2008, Hyundai's U.S. management team began searching for ways to drive around this mental block. The solution was as direct as it was unusual: Hyundai would promise to take back vehicles from buyers who got sacked within one year of their purchases. Tossing a marketing campaign together in just five weeks, Krafcik had ads running on TV by early January, in time for the much watched National Football League playoffs. The offer instantly grabbed headlines across the country. "Give them credit, they made some noise," says Gary Dilts, a senior vice president at auto-research firm J.D. Power...
...Around Rockwell, and on a low budget, Jones has created a plausible environment - sterile on the inside, grungy on the lunar surface - that would drive anybody nuts. He guides the film at a tempo that is both measured and assured; here, it's clear, is a director who knows how to get the viewer on his pensive wavelength. Mass-audience action fans may plead for more stuff to happen, but they should attend to the tensions within the silences, in a place where no one can hear Sam scream...
...trial goes on, the prosecution will surely continue to drive home their most damning points: the knife; Knox's statement putting herself at the house the night Kercher was slain. And the defense will probably point to the crime-scene video, with its frequent stops and starts, and to alleged flaws in the investigation - for example, when a female investigator reaches down with tweezers to pluck a hair sample off the blood-stained duvet, her own long hair dangles down beside...
Surfing, for its part, is not an alien sport to Chicagoans. At Ryan Gerard's Third Coast Surf Shop in New Buffalo, Mich., many of his growing base of customers make the 90-minute drive from Chicago to purchase their gear. "There's no reason we shouldn't be allowed to surf," Gerard says. "We see ourselves as an asset to local communities." But given the risk of being ticketed and fined $500, Chicago surfers have typically gone elsewhere in the Great Lakes, the world's largest body of fresh water. Still, aficionados continued to sneak into the water...
...Gauguin was a revolutionary," says my tour guide Tim as we drive through the rainforests of Hiva Oa. "He fought against the local church, he fought for the rights of us Marquesans. He lived according to his own values, and we appreciate him here still...