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...decide whether that "previously owned" car in the dealer's lot is a lemon? Call Auto Critic and have it dispatch a mobile inspection unit to check out the used car, van or truck in question. For $54 to $69, a certified mechanic will spend about 45 min. running the vehicle through a 92-item checklist, which includes the obvious, like turn signals and wiper blades, and the not-so-obvious, like axle seals and cover gaskets. The mechanic will even take the car on a test drive. Armed with the results, the would-be buyer can renegotiate or reconsider...
...Thatcher and the Tories who must govern without her, the downturn in the British economy is seen as a serious threat in the general election. It is expected that the Tories will call the election as late as possible, which could mean the spring of 1992. But the inflation rate, now running at 10.9%, is slackening, and the pound, linked to the E.C.'s Exchange Rate Mechanism, is strong. The next Prime Minister may be able to lower interest rates and even spend more money in the social areas Thatcher was accused of neglecting so badly -- education and health services...
...academy, which will celebrate its 15th anniversary at the end of this school year, has 176 students in grades 9 through 12. Almost all are Navajos -- the Dine, as they call themselves, which means the "People." This year there are also three Anglos, as whites around here are invariably called. Nestled against a high shelf of rock, the school consists of a snug quadrangle of dilapidated buildings on the grounds of a turn-of-the-century Methodist mission. It has a pleasant atmosphere and, if you blur your eyes a bit, looks like a down-at-the-heels New England...
...superintendent of schools in San Diego. You get a telephone call at 6 a.m. one Sunday with the news that a black male assistant superintendent has murdered a white female director of program evaluation and committed suicide. The police are at your house by 7 a.m., and the media are about to spread like an oil slick all over this one. What...
...some clammy hope for fame, for a grade, for a forlorn fix of approbation. Out of dread of a deadline, or out of sheer neurotic compulsion. Plagiarism is a specialized mystery. Or the mystery may be writing itself. Many people cannot manage it. They borrow. Or they call up a term- paper service...