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...first you don't succeed, then cheat like crazy. That seems to be the philosophy behind the making of an ad for Volvos. Print and TV commercials featured Bear Foot, a six-ton truck that drives over a row of cars, flattening them all -- except the Volvo. But last week the Swedish automaker withdrew the ad, admitting that the sturdy Volvo had a little help: steel posts welded to the chassis. When Volvo filmed the commercial last June in Austin, Bear Foot initially crushed everything in its path, including a Volvo. In view of 400 hired spectators, the production crew...
...Saturn's progressive ideas sprang up in Tennessee. Many were borrowed from around the world by the Group of 99, a team of Saturn workers who traveled 2 million miles in 1984 and looked into some 160 pioneering enterprises, including Hewlett-Packard, McDonald's, Volvo, Kawasaki and Nissan. Their main conclusions: that most successful companies provide employees with a sense of ownership, have few and flexible guidelines and impose virtually no job-defining shop rules...
...jokes as the information. Boston's Tappet brothers -- actually two M.I.T. grads named Ray and Tom Magliozzi, who own an auto-repair shop and drive U.S. models -- have turned America's love-hate relationship with the automobile into a stand-up routine. "Do you know why they call the Volvo the poor man's Mercedes?" Ray once asked a perplexed caller. "Because the repair bills will keep you too poor to buy a Mercedes...
...because he was a black candidate. The most common benchmark is to measure Wilder's vote against the come-from-behind 54% to 46% triumph of Democrat Donald Beyer over Edwina ("Eddy") Dalton in the battle for Lieutenant Governor. What gives piquancy to this comparison is that Beyer, a Volvo dealer and political neophyte, was running against the widow of a former Governor. "Wilder would have won a victory similar to Beyer's if he had been white," contends Sabato. But this is a bit facile. "You've got to look at the races separately," says Mandy Grunwald, Beyer...
Ironically, Zimmerman, listed 41st in the nations in the latest Volvo men's singles rankings, was the only Harvard player to drop a set, outlasting Gil Dailey at first singles, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. Crimson, 9-0 at Princeton...