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...engineering and design staffs, and even its own president. He is Joseph J. Sanchez, 54, a former Oldsmobile division boss and head of GM Latin American subsidiaries. Sanchez will operate much like the chief executive of a totally new and independent company. Said Smith: "We are not going to handicap him with a lot of preordained rules." Freed from the heavy, established GM structure, Saturn's managers are supposed to move swiftly on several fronts to make cars that are, in both quality and cost, competitive with Japanese models. Currently, for example, Japanese automakers can turn out a vehicle...
...born dyslexic, and even today she has difficulty in telling left from right, or in reading the time on a clock. "Almost every day of my life," she says, "I will do something that puts me at right angles to the world." She insists this is not a handicap but a help. "My disability is one of the greatest advantages I have," she says. "It helped me become a student of the thinking process before I was even in kindergarten. It now helps me understand the way other people think...
...time they all took a boat cruise to Mexico. Ueberroth rarely goes to the movies and watches little television. While not intellectual, he is tirelessly inquisitive and reads about 30 books a year, preferring historical nonfiction. At 5 ft. 11 in. and 185 lbs., he is a good golfer (handicap: 8), and likes to skin dive and spear fish around his waterfront house in Laguna Beach. But until 1978 he had never really considered sport as anything more than a free-time enthusiasm...
Despite their handicap, they manage to get by--with a little help from their friends and the University...
...demands his "bond." pathetic and desperate when he calls for "revenge," and a maligned and wronged father when persecuted by the younger generation. But, why is he in an electric wheelchair, aside from its being a useful prop with which to propel him around the stage? Shylock is handicapped enough by being a Jew in a Christian society, and the '20s setting emphasizes that such prejudices are universal in time. But this added handicap is distracting: when he suddenly rumps out of the chair during the "revenge" speech, the audience doesn't know whether it is meant to be poignant...