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...Jagdish Khattar, former managing director of Suzuki India who now runs Carnation Auto, an independent multibrand auto sales start-up, attributes Ford's poor showing to a lack of the right mass-market product. Its India models - the Fiesta, Ikon and Fusion - are relatively large and expensive (for India). Small cars - those powered by engines of 1.5 liters or less and generally costing no more than $8,000 - drive 70% of auto sales in the country. "Ford was operating in just 30% of the market," says Khattar. "All the action was happening elsewhere." The diminutive Figo is Ford...
...around the cross” and “it was death in life” explore Christian issues. In this poem, Valentine positions the speaker as Mary’s baby, writing, “She tickled me & told me I was beautiful / She held me in the ikon & we gazed.” These peaceful lines allow the reader to comfortably ponder whether or not Valentine is positioning her speaker as Jesus while characterizing Christianity as warm and maternal. Similarly, in spiritual poems like “Death Poem,” “The Afterlife Poem?...
...Crimson went 1-3 against tough competition at the IKON Husky Volleyball Classic in Storrs, Conn., failing to win a game against strong national-level programs in UConn, Southern Methodist and New Mexico...
...members carry "euthanasia passports" and lobby for more liberalization. The Dutch Royal Society of Medicine endorsed guidelines in 1984, and today's de facto decriminalization represents a compromise between euthanasia foes and advocates of full legalization. Periodic controversies roil the debate. In 1994, for instance, the Dutch TV station IKON's filming of the death by euthanasia of a man with Lou Gehrig's disease in a documentary, Death on Request, brought a denunciation from the Vatican...
Obviously, the move from big and bungling to small and snappy will not be painless. Even those Kombinate most likely to survive the rigors of a free market, such as optics manufacturer Zeiss-Ikon Jena, will have to cut their bloated payrolls. Officials in Bonn have estimated that the ranks of the East German jobless will grow from 26,000 today to an estimated 2 million (out of a work force of 8 million) by next year...