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Asked last fall if he could name one way students were served by the four-year limit, Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Patrick K. Ford '66, a member of the standing faculty committee on Expos, thought for a moment...
...Anyone failing to observe this warning will be subject to prosecution for criminal trespass," Ford warned...
That's because Ford Explorers or Chevy Blazers are not about exploration or blazing, or even about fat tires meeting bumpy terrain. They are about the possibility of it. "They suggest you could drive off-road if you wanted to, even if you never do," says Christopher Cedergren, senior vice president of AutoPacific, an automotive consulting firm. In other words, they perform the neat psychological function of persuading baby boomers that reaching middle age has not turned them into grownups. "They don't carry the same label of suburban domesticity as our vans do," says Chrysler vice president Bernard Robertson...
...year. With those kinds of gains, Chrysler is adding a third shift to build Grand Cherokees around the clock at a Detroit plant this fall. Chrysler is also reopening a Missouri facility that it closed down four years ago and will now use to make Jeeps. For its part, Ford is converting a St. Louis plant that currently makes Aerostar vans to sports-utility production at a cost of nearly $600 million. And General Motors is juggling shifts at plants in four states to make room for a new Chevrolet Blazer this summer and new Chevy Tahoes and GMC Yukons...
...that enable them to look out over traffic and feel secure. "Before, when I drove around town, I always had my hand on the horn because I was worried about my visibility to other drivers," says Jill Headstream, 41, a legal assistant in Austin, Texas, who traded in her Ford Probe for an Explorer in April. "I'm noticed now." Besides, says Headstream, Jeeps and their cousins have helped bolster the position of women in the road's ancient gender war. "For years men drove around in big cars and trucks and looked down at women, at their legs...