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...minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one toy car, equipped with an older battery, quickly slowed to a halt while another, powered with his now standard alkaline battery, raced around and around the cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who "took special pride around Christmas, when there was a rush for batteries...
...perhaps it's no surprise that stodgy dividend stocks--blue-chip companies with modest but consistent single-digit earnings growth--have returned as an investment of choice. As Frank M. Felicelli, portfolio manager of the Franklin Equity Income fund, puts it, "It's back-to-basics investing...
...Arafat of undermining his authority, would almost certainly win. Some Palestinian observers, however, questioned how long the clerkish Abbas would last if a challenge emerged later from a more ruthless opponent. The P.L.O. chiefs fear that without Arafat, the armed gangs ruling Palestinian towns wouldn't have even the modest restraining influence "the old man," as they call him, has had over them. The resulting civil unrest could doom Palestinian aspirations for statehood. "We have to avoid anarchy, because we know the alternative is that the Israelis will come in and take over," a senior Fatah official told TIME...
...Escape Hybrid's gas engine is a modest four-cylinder, 2.3-liter unit. But its electric motor gives it extra juice for a combined 155 hp. The motor is powered by a 250-lb. battery pack that lies flat beneath the cargo area, where the spare tire would normally go. The battery is automatically recharged during driving and braking...
...away in the by-lanes of Baghdad's upscale Yarmouk district, the Omar al-Mukhtar Mosque is an unimpressive structure. Gray cement and concrete, it boasts no glittering dome, no grand courtyard, no elaborate stucco work on the ceiling. The loudspeakers on its single minaret are set at a modest volume, and the muezzin's call to prayer barely travels a few blocks. "We like to keep things low-key," says Abdul Karim al-Nasseri, the mosque's soft-voiced imam. "People come here for quiet contemplation...