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...standards made a distinction between cars and light trucks. (SUVs count as trucks because of their weight and off-road capability.) Everyone agrees that when the fuel-efficiency law was passed, Congress had no intention of exempting a huge class of passenger vehicles from regulation; SUVs didn't really exist back then. There were only the precursors--the Jeep, the Chevy Suburban--and they were considered work vehicles and novelties. In the 1970s American Motors Corp. sought to have Jeeps classified as light trucks to avoid cars' emission stan* Adards, which would have required design changes. AMC rightly pointed...
...course, what is true in theory may turn out to be impossible in practice. As one researcher, Lov Grover of Lucent, put it, "We're writing the software for a device that does not yet exist...
...Might the party be willing to gradually cede control of China's mass communications to the private sector, as it has allowed entrepreneurs to acquire factories and other tools of production? Not likely. Although a few private studios exist and censors have loosened up, "We can't have a private TV channel in Shanghai," Ye explains, "because the media must help the Communist Party lead the people...
Being a standing committee means that the names and contact information of the group’s members will be published in course catalogs, giving students greater access to the resources they provide. According to Shelemay, ad hoc committees generally deal with specific issues and exist for only finite periods of time...
Having already thrived in a New England boarding school, Harvard wasn’t much of an adjustment. Still, the support system that had so nourished Hernandez at Exeter didn’t seem to exist at Harvard. “At Exeter, there was a community of people who looked out for you. At Harvard, you have to build that community for yourself, you’re on your own. That was the hardest thing. For a whole semester, I struggled...