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From the day General Motors began test marketing air bags in 1973, sales were flat. Car buyers declined to pay $225 for the optional safety device, and by the end of 1976 they had disappeared from auto showrooms. Now the Ford Motor Co. is trying an American air-bag comeback. Last week the carmaker said it will carry driver-side air bags as an $815 extra on four-door models of the 1986 Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz...
...been wandering, rankling, challenging and extending the musical margin for more than two decades. Don't think twice, anyone: it is 22 years since Blowin' in the Wind appeared on his second album, and a flat 20 since Like a Rolling Stone was released and kicked rock songwriting onto its head. Incredible that there could have been such a radical change in his style in just two years, from the plainspoken beauty of Wind to the diabolical and delirious poetry of Stone. There was hardly a beat for transition, just an amphetamine rush of allusive imagery and electric boogie fused...
...with Chinese steel producers in two mines, Channar and Eastern Ranges. The Channar partnership (China's first foray into foreign mine investment) began in 1987. Major new port, mine and rail projects will increase the company's production capacity to 170 million tons by next year. "We are running flat out, going as hard as we can," says Sam Walsh, who heads Rio Tinto's iron ore group. "There is a buzz in the Pilbara. Everybody loves a new project. Our Dampier port upgrade is employing 840 people. It's good news for the region...
...union would no doubt address the grievances of graduate students at Yale and Columbia. A union could advocate on behalf of TFs to an unprecedented extent. Additionally, the university-wide common pay scales that the graduate student organizations are calling for would be a marked improvement over flat payment schemes that are currently used, which give TFs little incentive to improve or invest more time in their teaching. Unionization could also fix financial aid for graduate students, the terms of which in many instances require them to teach sections. No undergraduate should have to endure a section taught by someone...
...water was really nice, it was really flat, and I think we made a lot of technical changes and did a lot of work,” said captain and two-seat Heather Schonfield. “It went really well, the first-varsity, the second-varsity, and the four all had fairly good races...