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AUTOMOBILES Despite Fisher's experience, most automakers are highly attentive to changes in demographics and consumer preferences. The wider profile of the U.S. buyer is cited as one reason that SUVs and other so-called light trucks outsold passenger cars in 2002. "The quickest way to alienate customers is to have them rubbing against something," says Michael Arbaugh, a top Ford interior designer. The seats in Ford's already spacious Lincoln Navigator were widened an inch for the 2003 model, and the room between driver and steering wheel was opened up considerably. In its 2003 Focus compact, Ford narrowed...
...Junior Dirkje Dunham will attempt to replace last year’s Ivy League assist leader as the ‘quarterback’ of Harvard’s offensive attack. According to Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, who calls Holsey “one of, if not the, quickest player I’ve ever coached,” the freshman should be up to the challenge...
...pass the U.S. for the first time as the top recipient of foreign investment. Speedy Little Pill The European Parliament struck down an industry-backed measure that some feared would allow consumer advertising. But that medicine came with a spoonful of sugar: a bill to create the world's quickest drug approvals, cutting the wait from 18 months to about seven. Goodbye, Herbal Viagra? Unsolicited e-mail, or spam, is such a scourge that now even spammers are trying to stop it. The Direct Marketing Association, which once fought for e-mail advertising, is now lobbying the U.S. government...
...presidential com plexes or on mobile transporters, Washington insisted that U.N. rules on inspections be rewritten before personnel go to Iraq. Baghdad had refused to allow the surprise inspection of Saddam's 57 palaces. China and Russia disagreed with the U.S., and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for "the quickest possible deployment" of inspectors. But chief inspector Hans Blix said: "It would be awkward if we were doing inspections and a new mandate were to arrive." At week's end, the U.S. seemed ready to accept a compromise French proposal for two new resolutions, for inspections and military reprisals...
...hurried through” last spring, without discussion, in the middle of exams, and in a manner that some faculty described as suspicious. Harvard also knows that requiring corroboration empowers the College to avoid the issue altogether in most sexual misconduct cases. Requiring corroboration may be the quickest and simplest solution, but it is a poor excuse for a meaningful sexual assault policy. Until the rule is abolished, Harvard will have the ignoble distinction of turning its back on the well-being of its female students by failing to deal with the serious and growing problem of campus rape...