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...other minutiae of setting up a car plant. They talked--and shouted--16 hours a day, seven days a week in a small office on Shanghai's Huashan Street. "I would say, 'I can't live with that, Mr. Hu. I'll get killed,' and he would say, 'My neck is under the blade here,' and so it would go," says Murtaugh. But with the technology-transfer guarantee from Smith, the Shanghai government was as determined as GM to make the joint venture a success. "We were both under orders that this was going to happen," says Murtaugh...
...would be a perfect place to live. In 985 Erik returned triumphantly to Iceland and enlisted a group of followers to help him establish the first Norse outposts on Greenland. Claiming the best plot of land for himself, Erik established his base at Brattahlid, a verdant spot at the neck of a fjord on the island's southwestern tip, across from what is now the modern airport at Narsarsuaq. He carved out a farm and built his wife a tiny church, just 8 ft. wide by 12 ft. long. (According to one legend, she refused to sleep with him until...
...plan does not quite live up to a proposal Microsoft offered informally prior to U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's initial ruling against the company. If that opinion is widely held, Microsoft could suffer; any public perception that Microsoft is trying to loosen the noose around its neck will likely be met with widespread ire among consumers - and, perhaps more important, within Judge Penfield Jackson's chambers...
...critics charge, that has put smaller adults and most children at risk. When an air bag deploys, its force is directed into what would be a grown man's chest. Women and children, on the other hand, end up taking the brunt of the energy in the head and neck - a design flaw that's been fatal in 158 cases since 1990. (Air bags have, however, also saved an estimated 5,500 lives.) Friday's announcement follows considerable criticism of the government's mandated crash test procedure in the past decade. This clamor is unlikely to die down any time...
...always been a major goal of Hizballah. Neither is it logical to assume that Israel's departure will give the Lebanese a chance to rebuild their nation. The transformation of Lebanon will occur only when the country is brought out from under the boot of Syria. ADAM WIENER Great Neck...