Word: summering
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...tempting a loss on every sale. Chrysler even bungled its hottest product. There wasn't enough production capacity to meet demand for the wildly successful PT Cruiser, a hybrid retro minivan/station wagon. So even as auto-industry sales surged to a historic high last summer, Chrysler was beginning to hemorrhage...
...meantime, management actually reduced the retail price of the PT Cruiser $1,000, to $16,000, before it even hit the market. By last summer, when the Cruiser had become one of the year's automotive success stories, not only was Chrysler getting less per car, but management was still struggling with a concrete plan for cost-effectively increasing production...
...have angina without necessarily having a heart attack, and you can have a heart attack without the chest pains of angina. Fully one-third of all heart-attack victims feel no muscle pain at all, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association last summer. Their most common symptom is extreme shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing. Other signs include nausea, profuse sweating, lightheadedness, fainting, palpitations or unexplained anxiety...
...Baugh, CEO of Wilson Sporting Goods, raised $1 million from fellow manufacturers and spearheaded PE4Life, a national organization dedicated to promoting PE. A bill sponsored by Alaska Senator Ted Stevens that would provide $400 billion in funding for innovative PE programs is currently awaiting passage in Congress. And last summer President Clinton called on the departments of Education and Health and Human Services to produce a report on ways to address youth inactivity. The document--the first of its kind--is due to be released before the end of the year...
...vigorous exercise a day; 25% of all students don't get any PE. Only seven states require elementary PE teachers to be certified; three don't require PE at all. Georgia, the state with the highest rate of increase in obesity in the past 10 years, voted last summer to give middle schools the option of reducing PE. Only Illinois requires daily PE for grades K through 12--and even there, schools are getting around the requirement with waivers that allow students to substitute activities like school band...