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...Toyota's relentless cost engineering creates efficiencies that Detroit can chase but not match. Its philosophy of continuous improvement--rethinking the thousands of steps that go into building each model-- allows Toyota to constantly trim material costs and production time. The company lowered the base price of its 1997 Camry by 4%, for example, after taking steps that included streamlining the front-bumper assembly from 20 parts to 13 and reducing the number of steel body fasteners from 53 to 15. Such improvements enable Toyota to assemble a car in 21 hours, vs. 25 for Ford, 27 for Chrysler...
Think what a monster he might have been--what a corrupt, misshapen brat might have emerged from these 35 years of glamour, political power, tragedy, money, fame and relentless, drooling hype. A grotesque egotist might have been the best-case scenario...
Nonetheless, Dole plans more drug ads and, starting this week, new spots touting his tax cuts. Earlier ones fell flat, but these will feature not the figure 15% but instead $1,600--supposedly the amount a middle-class family would save each year. There will also be a relentless attempt to pin on Clinton that awful tag "liberal." Will it work? The question is almost irrelevant: this approach is just about all Dole has left...
...next week, when the woman comes in, she is groggy and inattentive. The relentless forces of whatever it is that is out there seem to have pulled her in yet again, at least this time...
That 2-0 cushion quickly became a 3-0 waterbed as the relentless Stauffer took advantage of chaos in front of the Boston College net to bazooka another rocket by the hapless Eagle goaltender...