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...strategic problem is twofold: the rising costs of incentives, which now run at an estimated $1,200 per car, and the lag time between its current lineup of cars and the arrival of the L/H. Iacocca's road show is an attempt to prove that the company has a potent strategy and that he is firmly back in control of Detroit's No. 3 automaker. Critics who would dismiss his chances of pulling the company out of the fire this time should try to remember how badly his doubters underestimated the man a decade...
...Souza did have a spectacular day in between the pipes, blanking the potent Princeton front line for 59 minutes...
...that period, before television converted moving images into visual tranquilizers -- pain and time killers sold over the airwaves without prescription (or proscription) -- they were stimulants to heroic-romantic imaginings. Self-transcendence, if you will. The movies were especially potent in the way they worked on the deprived sensibilities of provincial youngsters. Sneaking out from under parental disapproval, sheltering in the dark under the big, glowing screen, innocently absorbing its fantastic representations of faraway realities, surrendering to the belief that those realities must be true (unendurable to think that the whole world was as constricted as one little corner of Sicily...
Shifting public attitudes are one reason that the most potent N.R.A. weapon -- the threat to swamp opponents on Election Day -- has been proving harder to deliver. The association's political-action committee, the fifth most generous in the country, spent nearly $4.7 million to back political candidates in the 1988 election, up from $876,000 in 1980. Yet according to a study by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, the N.R.A. has failed to unseat a single one of its targeted incumbents in the past two congressional elections...
...immediate drop in market share. A company can forfeit as much as 30% of that share in the first year after generic substitutes become available, but many physicians continue to prescribe only the brand-name medications they have come to trust and rely on. When generic versions of the potent heart medication Dyazide were introduced in the mid-1980s, the drug's inventor, SmithKline Beckman, raised the compound's price...