Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lease, with no purchase option? GM executives protest that if they'd set out to prove electric cars a failure, they would never have spent six years and half a billion dollars building a revolutionary car from the ground up. They could have settled for a "conversion," taking the frame of an existing model and stuffing it with electric components, much as Ford has done with its Ranger EV and Chrysler with its EPIC minivan...
Sluggish sales aside, GM is recovering much of its investment by using the EV1, which alone spawned 23 patents, as a rolling research lab. The car has one-third less aerodynamic drag than any other car on the road. Features such as magnesium frame seats and highly inflated lightweight tires are being adopted in conventional GM cars. "The payback is not going to come through sales of EV1s in the short run," says marketing director Kennedy. "GM is laying the foundation for leadership on advanced-technology vehicles 10 or 20 years from now. That surprises people. They don't expect...
...also learned that even the shadow world had its rules. "The first is, keep it in the ghetto. In the good areas, you don't go stopping people without cause," he says. "Second, you don't take money to let a criminal enterprise continue. And third, you don't frame an innocent person." Blondie says he and his crew never "planted stuff" on an innocent person. If he were that kind of cop, he insists, "then we would have put drugs on Colbert, and I wouldn't be talking to you from behind bars right now. We could have created...
...playful, still-fresh score--is the lavish staging. The oversized sets and the use of greater stage depth contribute greatly to the feeling of enchantment, making even the Nutcrackered-out spectator feel like a wide-eyed child all over again. The second-act divertissments are ingeniously presented within the frame of a large-scale model of Drosselmeyer's toy theater from Act One, and each act has its own specific backdrop--pretty, if stereotypical (e.g., golden pagodas for the Chinese/tea dance, onion-domed places for the Russian), like the music and costumes--making each seem like a miniature ballet...
Weighed down by a bookbag packed so tightly that she is forced to wedge her statistics textbook under her arm, Ocon's five-foot, two-inch frame firmly grasps the carriage's top and with one quick tug manages to detach it from the body...