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...becomes less affordable and motorists drive into town undeterred, we can expect pollution from fuel emission to rise accordingly. Though the MTA doesn’t claim to be a “green” organization, we had hoped that on balance, Massachusetts would lean in the direction of encouraging environmentally friendly T usage...
...plan to work, VW must figure out how to act nimbly. It has a long history of drifting from profitable years to lean ones. Instead of following up hits from the '90s like the New Beetle and Passat, the Germans were either late or missed virtually every automotive trend: hybrids, crossovers, small SUVs. VW got so out of touch with U.S. consumers that in 2005 the company sent a group of employees, dubbed the Moonraker team, to the U.S. to spend a year figuring out what Americans wanted in a car. The answer: models designed specifically for this market...
...ready to take the sugar-free plunge, how do you do it? The authors' recommendations are diet classics: more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins and plenty of exercise. Gott likes artificial sweeteners like Sweet 'N Low; Bennett hates them. But whatever you do, stay away from the Halloween goody bags...
...hinted that he would consider a change in strategy if his generals proposed one. Meanwhile, General George Casey spoke at a Pentagon press conference about the pros and cons of adding more troops to stabilize Baghdad - something the Bush team has resisted for months. And the President seemed to lean rhetorically on the coming recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton, who are in their own hunt for a new strategy...
Hopefully the forthcoming British Broadcasting Corporation series tie-in with the book will lean more toward the reasoned analysis of the bulk of the book, emphasizing the motivations and ambiguities of all the actors in this transatlantic epic, rather than rely on the cheap “Americans are hypocrites” shot...