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...against Japanese rivals because of currency differences, and the fact that so far both European and Asian competitors have almost entirely missed the fastest-growing market segment of all: vans, trucks and sport-utility vehicles. In the past decade, although car sales have been 30% off their 1985 peak and have suffered two of their poorest years since the 1960s, the truck and van market has exploded to 60% of car sales...
...Given Day takes place a few years before Roses. The central characters were offstage presences in that play: a manipulative matriarch (Thompson in peak form) and her mentally and physically handicapped grandson. The new work also concerns itself with two marriages, one contemplated and one in danger of breaking up, plus tuberculosis, a son's going off to World War II, and the matriarch's claims to foretell the future...
...conviction that religion was crucial to civilization. "Only the Christian faith had the possibility to heal these people and give a new beginning," he says. He was ordained a priest in 1951, and moved on to a brilliant career as a theologian that reached its first peak at the Second Vatican Council...
...During peak periods when there is a scarcity of taxis, this allows the driver to get more than one fare," said Mike P. Holland, Director of Operations of the Brattle Transportation Services...
...runs a one-man environmental law firm in Boulder called the Colorado Mining Action Project. From Denver the Cessna 210 heads south to New Mexico, then north along the spine of the Rockies above ulcerated | earth where the land has bled money -- from gold at Victor near Pikes Peak, and at Battle Mountain near San Luis, Colorado; and from molybdenum at Questa in northern New Mexico and at the vast Amax mine near Leadville. The hawk's-eye view shows the wreckage of mountains, dead land that will not revegetate, soured rivers, towns left to wither when mineral prices dropped...