Word: trips
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...right-wing mayor of Nice, dogged by charges of tax evasion and embezzlement but still claiming to be "pure as the driven snow," left home for a business trip to Japan. While away, Medecin announced his resignation and is now dawdling in South America...
...does not actually reach Manhattan in Toward the Radical Church, the strongest story in this collection. Dahlgren has been invited to fly to the big city to speak to a presumably rich congregation about the plight of farmers back in the nation's heartland. To steel him for his trip, Dahlgren's two grown sons take him out for an extended night of barhopping, where the old widower almost succeeds in picking up a woman to take home. But she slips away, just as his farm has been doing for years...
Last year, many students considered "Plants" an easy way to get through the science requirement because of such enjoyable assignments as baking bread in lab to experiment with the properties of different types of flour and a field trip to a local brewery to observe the fermentation process...
...consumer complaints, one about a defective brake light and the other concerning a sticky cruise-control mechanism. "The company didn't run and hide," recalls Meade. "They stepped right up" and made changes in all 8,000 cars. Lexus owners did not even suffer the inconvenience of a trip to their dealership: within a few weeks, their cars were picked up, repaired and returned to them. To serve 10 Lexus owners in Grand Rapids, 150 miles away, dealer Meade flew in technicians, rented garage space, fetched the cars, fixed them, washed them and sent them back home...
Toyota's fast trip to the top came courtesy of just two models: the $38,000 LS400, a four-door sedan powered by the first Japanese V-8 engine to hit the U.S. market; and the $21,300 ES250, a smaller, six-cylinder sedan. The bulk of sales have come from the LS400, a model that Car and Driver magazine rated as better than both the $63,000 Mercedes 420SEL and the $55,000 BMW 735i in terms of ride, handling and performance. Up against the industry's pedigreed names, Lexus has created virtually instant brand loyalty, a feat unprecedented...