Word: excels
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...name that attracted the most attention was a new one: Hyundai (rhymes with Sunday). Hyundai is the first South Korean company to export cars to the U.S. At the Houston show and at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans, Hyundai last week unveiled its new Excel, a front-wheel-drive subcompact with an enticing base price of $4,995. The company is launching Excel with a $25 million advertising campaign and confidently predicts that it will sell 100,000 vehicles in the U.S. this year. That is not a modest mission: no foreign importer has ever come...
...lofty reputation of products made in Japan. Says Edward Klein, a Canadian auto dealer who sells the Pony: "People perceive it as a quality car because it comes from the Orient." That perception has some foundation: Japan's Mitsubishi owns 15% of Hyundai and supplies the technology for the Excel's engine and transmission...
...Excel is certain to intensify competition among makers of small cars. The rivals include Ford's Escort (base price: $6,052), Chrysler's Omni and Horizon ($6,209), the Toyota Tercel ($5,598), the Nissan Sentra ($5,649) and the Honda Civic ($5,649). Admits one Detroit executive: "The Excel will be a formidable competitor for everybody in the low end of the market...
...BOTH PLAYS, the actors aptly demonstrate their flexibility with character changes, but they excel most in hamming. Cannon, for example, tries too hard to aspire to the dramatic ideal of Macbeth but does well as the frustrated and displaced Landovsky. Kimberly Estes performs vigorously whether she is Mrs. Dogg or the nagging "Jewish mother" Gertrude in Hamlet or the cunning Lady Macbeth...
Highly motivated, the children of immigrants frequently feel guilty and disgraced when they do not excel at their studies. Le Giau expressed pride but Daughter Jennifer was ashamed when she came in second in a spelling contest. Son Nguyen, who plans to study engineering and then become a doctor, is still concerned that he has been infected by slack U.S. student habits. Reason: instead of straight A's, he pulled a few B's in his senior year in high school...