Word: modelling
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Reduced energy prices have also been a boon to U.S. automakers. Without continued pressure to hold down gasoline costs, Americans have been resuming their love affair with big cars. Sales of option-loaded large and luxury autos jumped 26%, to 1.79 million vehicles, in the 1983 model year that ended last month. Mid-size autos like the Chrysler Le Baron and Pontiac Phoenix were up 20%. Such results delight Detroit, because full-and mid-size cars are the most profitable. Meanwhile, sales of U.S.-made small cars totaled 3.23 million during the recent model year, up just...
Buckley could clearly use a commuter train to reality, but that simply wouldn't do. Whining about the scaling down of the latest model Cadillac limos, Buckley writes. "This simply would not do: I use the car constantly, require the room, privacy, and my own temperature gauge (for the back seat beyond the glass partition.)" But not to stop there, he goes on to detail the "usual market solution" in the form of a company in Texas that chops normal Cadillacs in half, stuffing them with new space and elegance. This "usual market solution" may enthrall the Polo shirt...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY has received more than its fair share of publicity ever since model Brooke Shields' arrival on the campus. Yet in recent months. Princeton has received press coverage that examines more than a certain undergraduate's wardrobe. Last year, Gabrielle Napolitano challenged the university's decision to withold her diploma after a professor accused her of plagiarism...
...Search of Excellence grew out of research begun in 1978 by Peters and Waterman for McKinsey & Co., a New York City-based management-consulting firm. After studying 43 model U.S. companies, the authors found that among other things, excellent firms stay close to their customers, encourage innovative ideas from rank-and-file employees, and experiment constantly to improve their products and services. Notes Waterman: "Our book was saying, 'Look, America, you're not so bad after all. Indeed, you've got some companies that are doing just great.' People were anxious to hear that...
...half the heroes in these stories are bachelors or widowers. There are also a few male characters for whom marital status hardly matters: a talking horse named Abramowitz, a bedraggled black bird who claims he is Jewish and calls himself Schwartz. The main character in a story called The Model speaks for most of Malamud's men: "Is there nothing more to my life than it is now? Is this all that is left...