Word: review
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Those mechanics were the concern of Ford engineers who as early as 1991 began planning the design for the new Taurus by tearing down and analyzing some 14 competitive models in a windowless basement room at the Ford Design Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Their brutally frank internal review found numerous faults with the Taurus and many superior features in the competition. "We needed major improvements in squeak and rattle performance and engine noises that came with wide-open acceleration," recalls George Bell, the chief engineer. "There was a tendency of the car to loosen up, and we clearly needed...
...headquarters. Another resulted in disciplines but is now considered flawed (Potts, for example, was censured but was later promoted to deputy director). More recent inquiries by the Justice Department have been harsher, full of complaints about stonewalling and deadly and unconstitutional changes in the rules of engagement. No review has been made public, though a 542-page report issued late last year has been widely leaked to the media and even turned up on the Internet...
...high school seniors, released today, that top all since the early 1970s. ButTIME's Richard Ostlingreports that analysts are cautious: "It is only about a 3 percent jump, which could just be a statistical fluke." One likely explanation: the two leading test prep courses, Stanley Kaplan and The Princeton Review, report enrollment increases of 10 percent, and test prep book sales are up 25 percent. The results also may exacerbate the "Bell Curve" debate over black student performance, Ostling adds: "The relatively poor showing for blacks raises again the nature versus nurture argument...
...clearly not an option. Not for Bernie Nussbaum. In repeated exchanges with Republicans on the special Senate Whitewater committee last week, the former White House counsel defiantly insisted that he had done exactly the right thing in July 1993 when he restricted the ability of federal investigators to review documents in Vince Foster's office in the days after Foster's apparent suicide. "I'm proud of my conduct," Nussbaum declared at one point. To which Alabama's Richard Shelby, a former Democrat, replied with a convert's contempt for his old faith: "You're probably the only person...
...JANE AUSTEN gay? This question, posed by the normally staid London Review of Books, was the headline for an essay by Stanford professor Terry Castle that subtly explored the "unconscious homoerotic dimension" of Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra. The implication has caused quite a kerfuffle among Austenites. "I think it's about as likely that Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man," was one of the more temperate responses. Says Castle, miffed: "For the readers of the LRB, I didn't really expect this to be such a stunning revelation...