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Perky and lightweight, the Suzuki Samurai four-wheel-drive vehicle has become a trendy runabout in the U.S. Last week, though, Consumer Reports magazine said it will give the Samurai a rating of "not acceptable" in its July issue, the first such verdict it has rendered in a decade. The magazine's publisher, Consumers Union, conducted emergency-handling tests in which the two latest Samurai models tended to tip over at speeds of about 40 m.p.h. when the driver made sharp turns...
...consumer group contends that the Samurai is tippy because of a fundamental design flaw: the center of gravity is too high. Thus Consumers Union is urging the Government to order Suzuki Motor to buy back all 160,000 of the Samurais (base price: about $8,500) sold in the U.S. The car's importer, American Suzuki Motor Corp., strongly defends its product as safe...
...dark, automatic exposure compensation for subjects that are lit from behind, and a built-in zoom lens for wide-angle and telephoto shots with a flash unit smart enough to narrow or widen its beams accordingly. The zoom lens of the Chinon Genesis is hand operated; in the Yashica Samurai and Olympus Infinity SuperZoom 300 it is powered by push-button controls...
Junk food at Cambridge natural Foods has also been healthified in the form of Barbara's Chocolate Chip Cookies with a Conscience, Samurai Puffs and nine grain pretzels...
...campaign) derived from Rather's departure from the ritual expectations: the network news star addressing the Vice President of the U.S. is expected to be earnest and anchormanly but not nerved up for a duel, an affair of honor. People do not expect the anchorman to behave like a samurai...