To raise fuel economy, future muscle cars might feature the superefficient eight- or nine-speed transmissions beginning to appear in luxury cars, or have electric-hybrid systems, though these technologies would add thousands to the cost of the car, Mr. Lutz says. ❋ Joseph B. White (2011)
Independent bookstores were battered first by discount chains like Barnes & Noble, then by superefficient Web retailers like Amazon. com. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Superfast, superefficient—as always—he put six stitches in me. ❋ Apolo Ohno (2010)
Noble, then by superefficient Web retailers like Amazon. com. ❋ Unknown (2010)
PH107 cultivation denied sex, destroyed beauty, and replaced local diversity with a superefficient standard.16 In that final narrow sense alone, PH107 might be considered a good thing. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)
I had got used to my mint and tea tree sponge baths after each three-hour rowing shift, but today there is no time to spare for even my superefficient five-minute bathing routine. ❋ Roz Savage (2009)
But consumers are fickle when it comes to buying superefficient vehicles. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A.O. Smith introduced the Vertex 100, a superefficient gas water-heater priced at $1,000 to $1,200, which can double as a furnace in either forced-air or radiant-heat systems. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Feeling as if he didn't recognize the face in the mirror, he covered it with shaving cream and began swiping smooth tracks with one of those superefficient five-bladed razors. ❋ Charbonnet, Gabrielle (2008)
Recall that in the 1990s, the Gingrich Congress tried to shut down the Department of Energy, slash all clean energy research (including biofuels), stop the joint government-industry effort to develop a superefficient car, and zero out all programs aimed specifically at reducing greenhouse emissions and accelerating technology deployment (for some history, see my 1996 Atlantic Monthly article and this 1997 article). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Instead of fulfilling the clean-and-green fuel-cell dream, in which superefficient, zero-polluting vehicles would hit the road, the PNGV supercar program may risk jeopardizing public health by bringing diesel back into the U.S. market. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the past, every new U.S. factory was modeled on a "mother plant" in Japan, where the company pioneered its superefficient Toyota production system. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It developed a superefficient manufacturing method, known as the Toyota Production System, that relentlessly roots out waste and builds in quality. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It's also largely responsible for Singapore's rise from swampland to superefficient First World city-state. ❋ Unknown (2007)
