Word: tests
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...Three, are showing up with paper and Styrofoam versions of their future models which will sit on linoleum floors. The most extravagant attractions, which were often better than the cars, will be completely absent. As The Wall Street Journal points out, "Chrysler LLC has eliminated its popular test track in the basement of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, for which it once trucked in tons of dirt, rocks and logs and where attendees could go for a short spin in a Jeep. " (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...test track really did not cost very much compared to Chrysler's total marketing budget which stretched into the tens of millions of dollars each year. But, it looks bad to have the firm's CEO hot dogging in a 4x4 on artificial sand and boulders when he has just taken billions of dollars from the federal government. Even Ford (F), which has not asked the US for a dime, will not be doing much beyond trucking in its latest models and giving them an extra coat...
...drug company Medivation, for which Sawyers is a paid consultant, chose MDV3100 to test in a clinical trial. In initial studies, 30 patients who had drug-resistant prostate cancer were given doses of MDV3100. Twenty-two showed a sustained reduction in their blood levels of prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, a protein that is elevated in the presence of prostate cancer; in 13 of those 22, the decline was more than 50%. That Phase 2 trial is ongoing, but the drug has shown enough promise to prompt the Food and Drug Administration to grant Medivation permission for a large-scale...
...school that is truly merit based. —ajr2009 Dear Harvard, Based on my rejection of student status at Harvard, I would like to know whether there are any janitorial posts open at Harvard College? Considering you told me that I did not score well on a test of trivia—SAT/ACT—and relied on that as a judgement of my ability to perform at your college, I was hoping if it would be possible to be admitted to Harvard via the working stream. I could enrich Harvard College by making it clean. Better than...
...espionage and illegally crossing into the country from China. North Korean officials say Laura Ling and Euna Lee are being treated fairly, although their detainment has raised tensions between Washington and Pyongyang--already at odds over a planned satellite launch that the U.S. says is a covert missile test...