Word: heftier
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...consumers, who fear collisions with gargantuan SUVs. "I'd like to use less gas," says Laura Blalock, a Memphis, Tenn., chemist. "But I can't enjoy saving Mother Earth if I'm worrying about getting squashed like a bug." Customers like Blalock won't have long to wait for heftier hybrids. In 2003, Ford will produce a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda Civic. Proving that hybrids are not necessarily environmentally virtuous, DaimlerChrysler...
...Bush camp disputes those numbers and points out that Gore's tax cuts are getting heftier too--$500 billion over 10 years. Some of that money would be deftly spent on what Gore is calling "Social Security Plus," a plan for voluntary, tax-free retirement savings accounts with federal matching contributions for working families. "I've always encouraged investments in the stock market [and] private savings accounts," Gore told TIME, "but they should come on top of the foundation of Social Security. That's why I call it Social Security Plus. And the difference is, Governor Bush proposes to drain...
...cottages surround an indoor courtyard where heftier hounds can trot on a treadmill and quieter pups can cluster for story time and a snack. An outside yard has a pool and an agility course with hoops, tunnels and a slalom run. You can request custom packages that include a Yappy Hour with gourmet biscuits or outdoor picnics for your dog and a few closest pals. "When we pick him up, he never wants to leave," says Stephanie Ruthberg, 11, of Beau, her family's Bouvier des Flandres. "He thinks of it as camp, so when we go away...
Some Sundance directors have heftier credentials, like two-time Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple. Others may have hotter properties, like Mary Harron with American Psycho. But only one made her film debut in the most famous scene of Hollywood's most famous gangster movie. Sofia Coppola was the baby baptized during the killer climax to The Godfather, directed by her father Francis. Now 28, and having rummaged through the other arts, she has made her first feature. Like Michael Corleone, Sofia is joining the family business...