Word: volkswagen
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...worry that the U.S. has lost sight of excellence? We at TIME think we know where to find it. Over the past six months, as part of our College Achievement Awards program, we searched out 20 of America's outstanding undergraduate juniors. Together with the program's exclusive sponsor, Volkswagen United States, we sought to recognize and reward young men and women who have pursued their talents to the limit...
...tanker was a mile off course even though its navigational systems were working. Dan Lawn, spokesman for the Alaska department of environmental conservation, said the captain's effort to steer the Exxon Valdez back into the narrow shipping lane was like "trying to park a Cadillac in a Volkswagen spot...
When the Yugo subcompact was introduced into the U.S. four years ago, its promoters billed it as the next Volkswagen Beetle. But last week Global Motors, importer of the Yugoslav-made car, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The car's initial allure was its low base price, which started at $3,990 in 1985 and is now $4,349. But the car ran into competition from South Korea's Hyundai Excel, which began selling...
Even by the laid-back standards of Southern California, it was a slow-motion arrest. Just outside Malibu last week, highway patrol officer Donna Urqidi noticed that a slow-moving 1978 Volkswagen was creating a traffic jam and ordered its driver to pull off the road. But as Urqidi left her car, the VW took off. With lights flashing and sirens screaming, Urqidi and two other patrol cars set off in less than hot pursuit of the escaping vehicle. And followed. And followed. And followed. Through the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. For four...
...founded Project Open Hand with seven "clients." Each day by 5 a.m., she would prowl the produce markets for "distressed" vegetables. She cooked in a church basement and delivered the meals in her battered Volkswagen van. "Some of the people were so emaciated," she remembers, "they would have to crawl to where the buzzer...