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...Jeep was handed down from Willys-Overland to Kaiser and then, in 1970, to American Motors. It inspired many AMC hot sellers, including the Wagoneer and the Cherokee, which have outsold the ailing carmaker's other models. As the civilian Jeep disappears, so will its military forebear: the Army plans to enlist a more elaborate vehicle, the Hummer...
ONLY A QUACK offers a quick, painless fix for a serious illness. And although we may be tempted at times to seek such expedient treatment, sound judgement tells us to forebear...
...sturdy submersible that photographed the Titanic has a legendary forebear: it was named for the ship sailed by the Greek hero Jason as he searched for the Golden Fleece. And roam the Argo does, skimming just above the ocean floor like a giant sled. Designed to map deep-sea hills and gulleys, the craft can descend to depths of 20,000 ft. and remain underwater indefinitely. Essentially, it is a 16-ft.-long cage fashioned to protect a clutch of strobe lights, side-scanning sonar devices and an array of cameras from marine flotsam. The entire contraption is tied umbilically...
...seven, and the boy was dedicated to his grandfather, the Senator who helped keep the U.S. out of the League of Nations after World War I and for whom young Cabot was named. In his early years serving in the Senate, Lodge was an isolationist like his forebear, but during World War II, he quit his Senate post to fight in the European theater. By the time he was re-elected to the Senate in 1946, he was an internationalist, convinced that the war had taught "the value of collective security." In the early 1950s, as a leader...
Students enrolled in Expos II credit the individual instruction given by tutors as the most beneficial difference between the new offering and its freshman year forebear, and Expository Writing Director Richard C. Marius agrees. "Writing is an intimate act," he explained...