Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wooing both Swing I and Swing II would require a hybrid message. "You don't win by being either tough on everything (like Dole) or soft on everything (the old Democratic cliche)," he says. "You need a synthesis." If ever there was a Zen candidate, a man who could hit two pockets on the ideological pool table at the same time by combining toughness and compassion, it was Bill Clinton...
...Denver-based Baby Bell, for $2.5 billion. In doing so, the company misguidedly ceded to US West a lot of control over any big decision regarding these businesses--such as selling any of them. US West is strategically committed to cable because the company sees the cable-telephone hybrid as the perfect pipeline into consumers' homes, capable of handling video, voice and data. It might be willing to give Time Warner its freedom--as well as a guaranteed outlet for programming--in exchange for majority ownership of the cable assets...
However long that takes, Toyota has already created a corn-fed hybrid of East and West along the I-64 corridor. About half of Toyota's top 100 executives in the U.S. are American. And there are about 50 Japanese in the 6,500 person work force at the Georgetown plant. At the Tachibana sushi bar in nearby Lexington, Kentucky, manager Takashi Iwata serves raw fish to Japanese diners as well as to locals raised on burgers and barbecued ribs. "I am happiest when I have customers in cowboy shirts using chopsticks," Iwata says. "But to tell you the truth...
...essence of the hybrid is that very little energy is wasted. Not only does the turbine re-spin the flywheel, but so does braking, which in today's cars produces energy that is lost. The same goes for fuel. With a catalytic "combustor" on the turbine that burns gas more efficiently, the power train will produce what is, by EPA standards, "zero emissions." According to the Rosens, the turbo-flywheel combination will at least double the gas mileage of the car in which it is used, produce a satisfying sound not unlike that of a Lear Jet (albeit far quieter...
...this power train next year and even foresees limited sales to gotta-have car fanatics in 1998. But there is no way of knowing exactly how close they are to the multimillion-dollar and possibly multibillion-dollar payday that awaits them if the engine is mass produced. The hybrid works well in the lab, but the first road tests have been postponed until next year...