Word: wheel
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...toilet, McCain 2.0 is housed on the 13th floor (superstitiously identified by the building as the "M" floor) of a soulless office high-rise in northern Virginia. McCain's 2000 campaign was a free-for-all, but his 2008 operation is more conventional, with far more hands on the wheel...
...associates recall his behaving erratically and constantly phoning for legal advice. Then on Oct. 12, in Tennessee, his daughter Elisa, 21, walked away from the wreck of a car she had driven into two trees. She said she had been tired. Apparently she had fallen asleep at the wheel. There were two bodies in the car, her mother Minda and her father Michael, whose face, says a mortician who helped prepare the body for cremation 48 hours later, was damaged beyond recognition...
Instead of trying to compete head on at lunch and dinner, Dunkin' is betting on snacks like smoothies and miniature pizzas. Drive-through customers account for 60% of its business, so Dunkin' is focusing on food you can eat with one hand on the steering wheel. Since people stop in for coffee all day long, the hope is that they will be more inclined to grab a quick snack too. The prototype store uses high-speed ovens that can heat sandwiches in less than a minute while giving the bread those toasted brown edges no microwave can imitate...
...music in the Gap. Satellite service is embraced as the future of radio because it is new technology, and new technology seems like the only way to save old-fashioned broadcast radio. But in placing itself in direct competition with broadcast radio, satellite radio only offers to reinvent the wheel, and does so poorly.In many cases, it offers the same programming that listeners can get on regular radio stations, most notably on the nine stations owned by ClearChannel.What new technology should add to radio is not just a commercial-free listening experience, but a way to give listeners more innovative...
...forge ahead. Fung Wah suffered a major setback in August of 2005, when one of its carriers burst into flames, with fleeing passengers creating a publicity nightmare. The past six months have been unkind to Fung Wah, featuring a rollover in September that injured over 30 passengers, a wheel malfunction in January, as well as the most recent accident. After the September incident, Fung Wah hired Mokrisky to implement a comprehensive driver training program. Concerning the safety of the carrier, Mokrisky says that “it is obvious Fung Wah did not have a total understanding of the regulations...