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These days, though, both Mercedes and Jaguar have loosened up their styles (although not their steering)--and are ready to take on American carmakers, who have been more intent on defining luxury in terms of bigger, badder sport-utility vehicles. Mercedes' designers and engineers, once stubborn purveyors of Teutonic practicality, are rolling out the kind of spiffy variety--from elegant sedans to sport utes--to bring it into touch with today's big-spending yet more finicky car buyer. Meanwhile, Jaguar, for the first time in more than a decade, has expanded into a new market segment with...
...goodwill for both the players and the league. There's no great victory here." At least the end was convenient: Hundreds of players were already in town to vote on the league's previous offer -- many of them intent on replacing Hunter, who they felt was being too stubborn -- and they eagerly ratified the new deal in a 179-5 vote. Afterward, players gave the usual homilies about healing rifts and making this up to the fans, but the overarching sentiment was relief. Soon, they'll be playing ball again -- and collecting those monstrous paychecks...
...administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill patient [NATION, Dec. 7], Dr. Jack Kevorkian should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. In his stubborn, egocentric wisdom, Kevorkian has become judge, jury and executioner. After I had open-heart surgery 10 years ago, I could hardly breathe and struggled desperately. A medical technician repeatedly came by to see me, and at one point, in fierce pain, I scribbled in pencil, "Kill me!" At long last I recovered my health. Before that incident my instinct for self-preservation had never wavered, nor has it since. All aspects...
...only was he instrumental in creating both radio and television as we know them, he was also nearly clairvoyant in seeing how each medium would develop. He regarded black-and-white TV as only a transitional phase to color and even predicted the invention of the VCR. His stubborn pursuit of technology turned his employer, Radio Corp. of America, into a powerhouse in less than a decade...
...part to detect feelings of abstract communication or inspiration. Pieces such as Max Beckmann's hollow-eyed Self-Portrait and Lyonel Feiniger's playfully interpretable Hairdresser's Dummy with Mr. and Mrs. Feiniger have the modern emphasis on form which mark their contemporaries in architecture and design, but their stubborn focus on people as objects indicates a less artistic goal-politics...