Word: sentimentals
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...corner? Fueled by deep discounts, sales for the troubled automaker surged 47% in June. But that prompted Chrysler and Ford to offer generous incentives too, setting the stage for a brutal price war. GM is also banking on redesigned SUVs to lift sales, despite a shift in consumer sentiment away from the gas guzzlers. High profit margins on SUVs are critical to GM's bottom line. But just 34% of shoppers are now considering an SUV, a three-year low, according to a recent survey by Kelley Blue Book. Sales of fuel-saving hybrids, meanwhile, are expected to zoom from...
...Shinsuke Fujimoto, 37, would recognize that sentiment. Founder and CEO of Digital Hollywood, a school for computer-graphic designers and programmers, Fujimoto demonstrates a sure-handed independence and confidence in his own abilities, not to mention a distrust of conventional routes of Japanese salaryman success. Fujimoto set up his company 10 years ago, and Digital Hollywood has since grown into a $30 million business, with a network of nine schools across Japan. Fujimoto says the keys to success are clear-cut: "It's all about will, timing and the idea," he says...
...Freedmen's Monument in Washington, offering a tender verdict from the perspective of someone who had been converted. If you judge him from the point of view of a pure abolitionist, Douglass said, "Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent." But, he went on, "measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined...
...Marvis. Jack Nicklaus II contemplates having his own whirl at the golf tour. And Don Shula has just promoted his oldest boy David to assistant head coach of the Miami Dolphins. "It's a wonderful thing when a son follows you in your life's work," Shula says, a sentiment probably shared by Buffalo Quarterback and Congressman Jack Kemp. At Dartmouth, David Shula caught most of his passes from current Los Angeles Rams Quarterback Jeff Kemp, who could end up in politics...
...really. Well surely then, when Eddie starts training to go back into competition again, he will get a chance to teach Vincent some lessons in respect for elders. No again. We are not on Rocky's side of the street, but in Martin Scorsese country, where bent character, not sentiment, shapes destiny, and the best the struggling human spirit can hope for is a split decision...