Word: rearview
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...tagged the rearview window ledge and ducked...
...training car" instead of the new, 32-valve model he wrecked in practice when the suspension snapped at 80 m.p.h. ("a bit breathtaking, that"). When he finally coasted under the checkered flag, he was far enough ahead (26 sec.) that the only thing he could see in his rearview mirror was his own face...
Opel has been doing pretty well: it has jumped from 14.3% to 21.1% of the German market since 1952 (v. Volkswagen's 32.5%). It has just discovered, however, that while pursuing Volkswagen it will have to keep a sharp eye on the rearview mirror. Reason: Ford's German subsidiary is coming up fast from the rear. Fortified by new and attractive models, heavy investment and good management, Ford has captured 19.6% of the German market with its Taunus cars, pulling to within honking distance of Opel and bringing the two U.S.-owned companies closer to domination of Germany...
...Rearview Mirror...
...doctrine of stare decisis [stand by past decisions] in settling a modern, complex problem, because a judicial precedent, which may have been established a decade or a century before, has been settled in a particular way. Why should anyone attempt to guide a society by looking backwards through a rearview mirror...