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...have unfairly labeled automakers as "bad guys" -mainly, he charged, to help win votes and gain circulation. In New Orleans, a Chrysler emissions expert, Charles Heinen, argued against "over-control" of auto exhausts, and said that Americans have been "needlessly frightened" by reports of car-caused smog. Added General Motors President Edward N. Cole: "National efforts to reduce overall air pollution must involve all major sources of pollution-not only motor vehicles but also industrial and electric generating plants, home and business heating facilities and refuse disposal operations...
Harvard's sophomore quarterback Eric Crone probably did not sleep very well Friday night in his room at the Lexington Motor...
...could be restored by evidence that his employer cares about him, if only in little ways. Do the managers eat in the same cafeterias as the men, share the same parking lots? Are management's decisions clearly?not condescendingly?explained? Does the company offer small, appreciated extras, like Ford Motor's provision of a tow truck with jumper cables to help any worker who cannot start his car on winter nights? Companies are trying to find more and more incentives for executives, and Rosow argues that they could extend some of those ideas, like profit-sharing plans...
...Canada two years ago, a motorcyclist with an electrically operated prosthetic arm passed near high-tension lines that were creating a powerful magnetic field. This energy caused the arm's motor to behave so erratically that the rider lost his grip on the handlebar, fell to the ground, and was nearly killed...
...thought that I drove a motorcycle because I like to drive a motorcycle; now it is clear to me that this is only my way of resolving my fear of my father and my unnatural attachment for my mother. I thought that my primary anxiety about the motor-cycle was that someone would steal it off the streets; now I realize that this anxiety is only a sublimation of my castration complex. I thought my girl friends loved me for myself; now it turns out that it was only my motorcycle they wanted all along. One thing that does...