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...finally shut down its Oldsmobile division, freeing me to share a secret: despite the assertions of the famous ad campaign, it was always your father's Oldsmobile. The body styles were boring, the engines ho-hum, the seats fairly comfortable but blandly upholstered, and the radios seemed to be preset at the factory to play only stations called "the Breeze." Plus, most of them smelled like Pall Malls and cherry cough drops...
Here's how the idea works: customers sign up for an assembly session with a preset menu. They come in and make their way around assembly stations, measuring prepared ingredients and putting them into plastic bags or disposable cooking pans. Everything is prechopped. Customers can tailor the dishes to their families' needs...
...never put Stewart or Bacanovic on the stand to offer a competing version of events. Howard Schiffman, head of securities litigation at Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky in Washington, notes that the defense's main argument--that Stewart and Bacanovic had an oral agreement to sell ImClone at a preset price--was left unsubstantiated. "What was the evidence that there was a prior conversation if they didn't testify?" says Schiffman. "The defense didn't offer an alternative theory." But that was at the end of a long trail of missteps by Stewart and her handlers. Among the fateful errors...
...said. The instrument, which he demonstrated during last week’s visit, is an ergonomic keyboard altered to produce electronic sounds as a MIDI controller. Instead of designating a specific note for each key, Gruenbaum designed the keys to correspond to intervals within a preset scale...
Mess with your wife's favorite radio stations, and you could open yourself up for a nice long talk about the lost art of consideration. Just ask newlywed Kaet Ruffner, 26, whose husband Andy borrowed her car twice and reprogrammed her preset radio stations. "I got fired up because I felt like he wasn't respecting my property," says Kaet, who lives with her husband in Fairfax, Va. "Then I knew I had to communicate with him, not react. I told him I didn't mess with his stations, so please don't mess with mine. He said...