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...difficult conditions in the tire market have given Firestone poor traction for making progress. The market has not only grown smaller -- the result of today's long-lasting radial tires -- but more competitive. Prices have fallen because of rising production by foreign rivals, notably France's Michelin and Japan's Bridgestone. At the same time, Goodyear and other U.S. rubber giants are also revamping themselves and boosting their commitment to tiremaking...
RECUPERATING. Debra Winger, 29, spirited screen star and belle of Nebraska Governor Robert Kerrey; after a January hiking accident near her New Mexico home injured her back and landed her in traction; in Lincoln at the Governor's mansion. The couple met in Lincoln during the filming of Terms of Endearment...
...also be purchased with air conditioning, power seats and expensive stereo equipment. Says Ed Rikess, owner of Southview Chevrolet in St. Paul: "The biggest option is the fanciest music system we can get." One out of four small pickups is sold with four-wheel drive, which provides greater traction on slippery roads and the freedom to gambol across beaches and hills...
...sometimes thought that the author of the Mondale curse was Mondale. He seemed somehow to be psychically disconnected from his own passions, to be neutralized by an internal maze of deflectors and scruples. He displayed a genius for undoing his successes. In any case, he had no political traction. For some reason, people heard not so much the substance of his words as his voice, an instrument that tended to reduce his strongest convictions to a whine. Maybe it was the upper Midwest talking, the boyhood as a Norwegian minister's son. In the vibrations of his voice, like...
While the oarsmen made if only as far as the preliminaries, they just missed qualifying for the second round by a traction of a second. Among in Hong Kong Harbor, they faced happy seas, due in part to a large wake from passing freighters...