Word: runts
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...smallest import, a wagonlike "sport tourer" dubbed the Baby Benz, expected to start around $25,000. And get this: DaimlerChrysler will officially launch in the U.S. the Smart brand that has been such a hit on Europe's narrow roads--showing off models like the Fortwo, a two-seat runt you could practically stuff into a Hummer. Mercedes-Benz, which has sold Smart cars for DaimlerChrysler in Canada since last fall, aims to have a model at U.S. dealerships by 2006, marketed to parking-challenged urban drivers...
...greatest fears about acceleration are not pedagogical but psychological. The leapfroggers may ace exams, but isn't it depressing to leave friends and become the runt in a class of older strangers? How does a 12year-old react when her 15year-old classmates start making out after school and getting their driver's permits...
...back of the Scion xB looks as if it had been chopped off in a body-shop accident. But take the runt for a spin, and you may be smitten. Scion is Toyota's new youth-oriented brand, and the xB, starting at $14,165, delivers a combination of style, pluck and Toyota-backed quality that teenagers (or parents footing the bill) may find tough to beat. The xB is another reason Toyota is on track for a record fiscal year. In its first half, the six months ending Sept. 30, global revenues rose 8% to $75.4 billion, and profits...
...book. When ideas are treated as ends, they can be deep, dignified and enormous; when they are forced to compete with one another in a crass market-place of ideas, they become scrappy, instrumental and unpalatable. My first aim this summer is to quiet their squabbling and nourish each runt with my mental largesse (owing in no small part to the largesse of the Harvard College Research Program). When the fall comes, the weak and infirm shall have to be weeded out; but in the meantime, I’ll luxuriate in the abundance and allow my wascally thoughts...
...countryside for seven years' hard labor. Still he pined for his father: "I dreamed of him in a plane, circling over me but unable to land." In the '80s, when Charles located his sons, one was working in a post office, the other in a pig sty. Meanwhile, the runt of Charles' litter had become Hong Kong's top film star, although until a few years ago Jackie didn't know that his real name was Fang Shilong. Hmm: Jackie Fang. An ideal name for a star in the Shaw Bros. classic action series of the '70s: Five Deadly Venoms...