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...competitive models in a windowless basement room at the Ford Design Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Their brutally frank internal review found numerous faults with the Taurus and many superior features in the competition. "We needed major improvements in squeak and rattle performance and engine noises that came with wide-open acceleration," recalls George Bell, the chief engineer. "There was a tendency of the car to loosen up, and we clearly needed to improve points in steering and handling confidence...
...Bells. Some of these newcomers have deep pockets. Teleport Communications Group, which operates in 37 markets, is owned by TCI and three other cable systems. "People are anxious for an alternative to the Bells," asserts Curt Hockemeier, a Teleport senior vice president. "It's going to be a wide-open fight." Declares James Crowe, chairman of MFS Communications, which is in 32 cities and plans to add 70 more: "Everyone wants in. Everyone is talking to everyone...
...early days, according to some current and retired agents, ATF often overstepped its bounds. The gun laws were full of opportunities for making felony cases against otherwise solid citizens accustomed to America's wide-open gun trade. At the same time, the arrival of serious gun control in the 1968 Gun Control Act radicalized the N.R.A., prompting the association to shift its emphasis from promoting marksmanship to gutting the act and harrying the enforcers. In 1980 the N.R.A. produced a film, It Can't Happen Here, in which Representative John Dingell of Michigan, then a member of the N.R.A...
Eckert then spotted a wide-open Ferrucci charging to the crease, and fed him the ball, which Ferrucci immediately sent home past bewildered Wildcat goalie Gary Foster...
...didn't occur to me that this photograph would become the enduring image of our failure in Vietnam. But it worked strongly on me, and still does: that wide-open sky waiting above the helicopter like freedom itself; the dark line of people bearing their hopes of deliverance; the apparent fragility of the craft, its precarious roost, the spindliness of the rotors on which all these hopes depend; and most eloquent, the figure of the crew chief silhouetted against the empty sky, pulling some fearful soul from one life into another, as we had set out to do by other...