Word: fiats
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...stars. Designed with the help of wind-tunnel testing and built of advanced composite materials, the sometimes secretly developed high-tech sleds enabled some teams to achieve a consistent advantage of a few crucial hundredths of a second. "If one person has a Ferrari and another has a Fiat, the Ferrari will win," says Ermanno Gardella, secretary of the International Bobsled Federation. "But if both have Volkswagens, the best driver will...
...foreign hands haunted the French last week as Swiss food conglomerate Nestle unwrapped a hostile bid to take over Source Perrier, France's bottled-water king and a company once deemed financially invulnerable. It was no solace that Italy's Agnelli group, which is bent on diversifying beyond automaker Fiat, was competing with Nestle for the rights to sell the famous little green bottles all over the world...
Italy is burdened by public debt, 6.4% inflation and 10.2% unemployment. The great Italian trade names -- Olivetti, Pirelli, Fiat -- are struggling. For most citizens the implications of this recession are only beginning to sink in, but labor leaders say the crisi will soon hit the whole white-collar sector. Yet the country's planners look abroad for succor. "Everything depends on what happens in the U.S.," says Tancredi Bianchi, president of the Italian Banking Association. Confindustria, the employers' federation, is also hoping that "the symptoms of recovery are confirmed...
...unauthorized directive was immediately leaked from the agencies that received it, and angry calls from Capitol Hill jammed the White House phones. Democrats and moderate Republicans denounced the directive. It was, said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, "an attempt to gain by Executive fiat what the White House could not pass through the Congress." A senior White House official agreed: "Boyden and his staff were just too close to the civil rights bill, and too many animosities built up. When it was over and the compromises were made, they still couldn...
Nonetheless, the traditional structure of public education, where students are assigned to schools by fiat, is under a sustained assault. The Bush plan perhaps should be regarded as a clever White House effort to put its imprimatur on a popular rebellion that was already reshaping educational policy from the grass roots up. Local school bureaucracies are already under siege from a variety of forces -- innovative Governors, activist courts, maverick educators and aroused parents...