Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mitchell estimated that a fuel-cell car with the Arthur D. Little reformer could offer between two to three times the gas mileage of a conventional, internal combustion engine car, which gets no more than 30 miles per gallon for city driving...
What Jiang's ringmasters have missed is that Deng's transforming moment was spontaneous, when he clapped a ten-gallon hat on his head in Texas and instantly conjured up the softer side of a regime the U.S. considered brutal, deceitful and threatening. Americans tend to judge countries in very human terms, so Jiang is going to have to find his own way to charm them into friendlier attitudes...
Whatever Jiang does in America will inevitably be compared to Deng's trip in 1979, when Deng was also trying to establish himself. Deng's defining moment was his donning of a 10-gallon hat in Texas. Could holding the Philadelphia Flyers' jersey with his name on the back be Jiang's moment...
...that a visit to the colonial capital of Williamsburg Va. late Monday ? during which every TV correspondent can allude to the Jefferson-quoting Chinese President "seeing where democracy began" ? and the stage is set for the biggest PR coup since Deng Xiaoping donned a ten-gallon hat back...
...gets even stranger. Each year a do-it-yourself city appears overnight. On one makeshift street, a three-story tower of scaffolding grows like a high-tech mushroom; draped with a parachute, it becomes an instant cafe. At a table, generous folks with a spare gallon of blue body paint offer to turn you into an alien. Behind them, two guys have built a house out of old wooden doors hauled in on a yellow rental truck. Inside you hear hypnotic techno music. The house will be gone 48 hours later, as will the rest of the instant city...