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...models like the 2007 Chevy Suburban as a "key negative" in Wagoner's turnaround plan, with the market for large SUVs expected to slump 8% next year. GM promises that the new models will be 10% more fuel efficient, be laden with more luxurious interiors and feature a smoother ride...
...with little appetite whatsoever. Texting should be reserved for late-night, mid-party, last-resort invites, immediately post-date thanks, and quick in-class chit-chat between friends. If you must resort to romantic rumination via Verizon, at least provide your name or initial since it’s smoother to assume we don’t have your number stored away—just because we do, along with a personalized ring-tone (“Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye) is besides the point...
...deliberately enlarged to appear more lifelike, Nick has the uncanny air of being both more and less human than the rest of us. The novel’s three-part division, following the narrator in 1983, 1986, and 1987, shows his consciousness at distinct stages of development. Nick becomes smoother, more jaded, and less likeable. He also becomes more tragic—and thus more loveable. Several points in “The Line of Beauty,” most notably the end, are tear-worthy, but the novel is no vanitas piece or memento mori. Hollinghurst once wrote that...
...evolving quickly into impatience and anger. New Orleans community leaders living inside the complex, helped by an advocacy network of Houston churches and schools, has gotten some 4,000 evacuees to sign a petition demanding immediate financial assistance; a long-term recovery package; streamlined procedures for obtaining services, and, smoother transition to homes away from mass shelters. Houston officials said that under a plan devised by local, county and federal housing authorities in conjunction with New Orleans government officials and the Houston Apartment Association, they expect to have moved the vast majority of evacuees out of the Reliant complex...
These freshmen, the so-called “myspace generation,” according to Troy Murrell ’09, say they believe their entry into college will be smoother, thanks to cyber “spaces” like thefacebook, Yahoo groups, and other message boards...