Word: tiring
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...amazing how a hundred deadly tire blowouts can clear a traffic jam on Capitol Hill. For more than a decade, the powerful auto industry has successfully fought any efforts in Washington to publish a ratings system for measuring a vehicle's propensity to roll over. Detroit wasn't going to let some meddling bureaucrats potentially gut its sacred cash cow, the wildly popular and profitable sport-utility vehicles (SUVS). But by last week, as the estimated death toll in the Firestone- tire recall debacle rose to 101, it became increasingly clear to Motown's allies in Washington that the battle...
...Ford is still negotiating - and it's casting a wide net. Ford had already been using some Goodyear tires on the Explorer (and has been tapping them for replacement tires since the Firestone recall); indeed, the apparently trouble-free performance of Goodyear's tires has been the company's main defense against Bridgestone/Firestone's persistent contentions that Ford-ordered underinflation was at the base of tread-separation problems. It's also talking to Continental General Tire, a German firm. But according to the Journal, the France-based Michelin company will be a main supplier...
...Ford's chief executive and current head of damage control, Jacques Nasser, is casting the shift in neutral terms - pointing out that for the first time, the customer will be able to choose his tire when buying an Explorer. Asked if that meant the end of the besmirched Firestone brand on Ford vehicles, Nasser said only, "The customers will decide." (Firestone, which hasn't been fired by Ford, is nevertheless bracing for a bit of a slowdown...
...need to establish a high tempo passing attack that will tire their defense and set up a run game," Rose said...
...only for the poor that the studio builds. In downtown Greensboro it constructed the Children's Center. Serving as a shelter for abused youngsters, it is a colorful, even humorous place with tilted windows, a welcoming canopy, children's handprints in the concrete, and a tractor-tire swing. And on a nearby farm in Sawyerville, it built Yancey Chapel. The church rests on a ridge in the woods and is made from discarded tires and old timber as well as slate dredged from a creek. All the materials are humble, yet Yancey is anything but pedestrian. With a font whose...