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...Croatian Sensation" missed the first half of the World Cup season completely, and her results when she did take to the piste were far from her best. But come the Olympics she switched up a gear to the form that last year had won her eight consecutive slalom races. She had little time to train for the women's combined but won that by nearly 1.5 sec. Three days later she missed winning the super-G by a mere .05 sec. But she was happy enough with silver. "I was a little bit out of line," she said...
Three years ago, Bill Sopko Sr. made the biggest gamble of his business career. With the economy booming, Sopko, the owner of an automotive-parts plant in Euclid, Ohio, invested $6 million in the latest gear to manufacture a critical brake component for heavy trucks. With a new 3,000-ton stamping press, he would reduce costs from $14 per unit to $9. Recouping his investment, he knew, could take as long as 10 years. But with plenty of orders in the pipeline, Sopko figured he had made a shrewd move. What he didn't calculate was getting caught...
There are two kinds of people who browse car magazines like "Car and Driver" or "Automobile:" Those who care about a car's specs - and those who care about its looks. If you're the former, if you really are fascinated by reading all that blather about gear ratios and bhp, you shouldn't be reading this column...
...newspaper, do you look around first to make sure your spouse - and I mean your wife OR your husband - isn't looking? Of course not. You're there for the pictures, not the articles. And if you really care about cars enough to read all that blather about gear ratios and bhp, you probably shouldn't be reading this column...
Terror alert? What terror alert? While the rest of the country is scrambling into high gear in response to an FBI all-points bulletin, here in sunny Salt Lake City, it's business as usual. This is the first high-security Olympics, where super-tight security is a way of life, and where Americans are getting really good at being really careful...