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...Meanwhile, Hyundai has also needed to be innovative to woo reluctant customers back to its dealerships. In 1999, the company began offering a 10-year warranty, at the time the best in the industry, to rebuild confidence in its cars. And to compete with bigger brands, Hyundai has loaded up its models with special features that many of its rivals sell only as expensive extras. A 2006 Sonata for the U.S. market will come with six air bags (most competitors offer only four as the standard), a six-speaker CD and MP3 player, and an advanced antilock-braking system...
...Syria, Jordan and Egypt met in various locales to focus their efforts on uncharacteristic unity rather than on their sometimes murderous differences. Even members of Yasser Arafat's Tunis-based Palestine Liberation Organization seemed to be caught up in the wave of regional fence mending as they tried to woo the support of members of rival P.L.O. factions in the Syrian capital, Damascus...
...both direct ("We have major achievements as well as quite a few unresolved problems") and rather bombastic ("Sometimes even a single day may be equivalent to a whole epoch in terms of the scope of decisions that have to be made"). The Soviet leader attempts to woo Americans with assurances of his reasonableness: "We are committed firmly to returning Soviet-American relations back onto a normal track, back to the road of mutual understanding and cooperation...
...Jennifer A. Woo ’06, the cause is more personal. When she was nine months old, Woo was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal respiratory disease, Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis, which causes tumors to grow in the larynx and trachea and requires numerous surgeries to treat. For the second straight year, she is raising money for the RRP Foundation...
...Woo added, “I am running it symbolically for the people who can’t breathe, let alone run a marathon...