Word: steering
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...dealers. So far, they have little incentive to push hybrids because profit margins are higher on bigger, gas-only vehicles. Honda and Toyota dealers' splashy newspaper ads rarely if ever mention hybrids. Prospective Prius customers complain that since only trained salesmen are permitted to sell them, the untrained ones steer them away from the cars. Would-be Insight customers say they can't even find one to test-drive. "We don't direct people to the hybrid," allowed Honda salesman Neil Perlmutter at a North Hollywood, Calif., dealership. "It is for people who want high gas mileage...
...Document all efforts, and sign and date each entry with two witnesses to your signature. (A patent attorney will steer you through this step...
...executive has been ascendant while the courts and the legislature have seemed to hibernate. And sometimes Congress or the courts seem to take the lead in setting the currents of our society. At times of crisis in American history, the courts have often been the institution that helped steer the country to the right path. Brown v. Board of Education was a triumph of judicial activism and morality...
...Pryor is now giving all interested students the chance to work with the board and the staff to steer the direction of the IOP. Yesterday morning at the IOP Senator Pryor called a meeting open to all Harvard undergraduates. At that meeting, students presented a more detailed version of their ideal IOP. Sen. Pryor openly welcomed their suggestions and encouraged them and all other interested students to continue to build ideas about the future of the IOP. The meeting was a great success, and I have no doubt the Institute will flourish under the system Pryor has started and students...
Though the number of friends may dwindle as we age, it seems our pleasure in them grows. Reason: "People become more selective and get better at knowing the kind of people they like and don't like," says Stanford psychology professor Laura Carstensen. "And they steer away from those they don't care...