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What is driving Driver's Mart and the others is in part a desire to Simonize a business stained by imputations of high-pressure tactics and low-rent ethics. The bigger reason is profits. The used-car trade is now the fastest-growing segment of the automobile market, largely because of consumer resistance to rising new-car prices and the brisk turnover in the booming car-leasing business, which accounts for 32% of all new-vehicle transactions. About six of every 10 cars and trucks sold nowadays are secondhand, and given the deep discounting of automakers on pristine models...
...surpasses our own abilities, our Galatea. Some have compared this moment to that of the invention of the automobile. In that case, we built a machine that accomplished something not only better than we did, but also better than we ever could. But we never thought we were the fastest; there was always a cheetah in the way. This time, it is different, for we have always thought that we were the best thinkers. In the past, intelligence supposedly made up for lack of speed or strength...
...impossible to learn very much about them. The stars they orbit--70 Virginis in the constellation Virgo and 47 Ursae Majoris in the Great Bear--are each about 35 light-years away. The speediest space probe would take millions of years to reach them; even a radio signal, the fastest known thing in the universe, would need 35 years to get there, and it would take another 35 for any aliens, should they exist, to answer. The planets are so dim that they cannot be detected directly. In fact, the only evidence Marcy and Butler have is observations of tiny...
...done up to resemble well-known liberals. Hard liquor and cigars would be provided. And Ingraham told a reporter that the Saturday night Canterbury Tales Dinner Banquet would feature "wenches running around with sides of beef." There would be edifying seminars with guest speakers: "Executives from some of the fastest growing companies in the United States will tell us which regulations need to be gutted and why." Heeding the call, 350 worthies headed south...
VOTERS LOVE IT AT FIRST SIGHT. Politicians want to embrace it. there may be danger in the details, but the flat tax is becoming the hottest new issue in the G.O.P. presidential race. Riding mostly on his flat-tax proposal, magazine mogul Steve Forbes has become the fastest-rising candidate in the contest. And he's about to get some prominent company. Next week a tax-reform commission headed by former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp will make its own proposal to flatten the federal income tax. Bob Dole, the Republican front runner and co-sponsor of the commission, is expected...