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...among consumers. Admits president Reuss, with a candor uncharacteristic of GM's inner sanctum: "In the early and mid-1980s, we let a lot of people down. We disappointed customers with some of our products' quality, reliability and durability. And as we were going through the change from rear-wheel drive to front-wheel drive, we had too many cars that looked alike...
...home one Friday night, I noticed ghastly sounds--then smoke--coming from the wheel well of my car. Realizing that I was driving with a flat tire, I nonetheless tried to ignore my car's hurking and jurking so I wouldn't have to stop and get help. Convinced that I could take my car to its very limits, I turned up the radio, sat back and even drove past a gas station...
...with Western troops in their holy lands. Iraq's propagandists also remind poor Arabs, both individuals and nations, that oil-rich royal families have invested almost a trillion dollars in the Western world. They publicized the recent loss by a Saudi prince of $130 million at a European roulette wheel in one night. Armed conflict can exacerbate all these concerns and may unleash a violent grass-roots reaction...
Sachs likens the situation to a politicalcartoon he saw that depicted Poland before thereforms as a "plane that was flaming out with bothengines on fire." In the drawing, then-Polishleader General Jaruzelski is walking to the backof the plane holding a broken-off steering wheel."He leans over to Lech Walesa and says, `Okay, youtry and run this plane...
...control system, for example, retards the engine's r.p.m. just before a gear shift, which reduces the lurch common to many automatic transmissions. The car bristles with luxuries as well: a steering column that automatically adjusts to different drivers, heated seats and an optional telephone mounted in the steering wheel...