Twenty-one years and 7
million cars later, Ford will
no longer make the Taurus. The last one rolled
off the assembly line, Friday
October 27, 2006. Recent financial losses caused
the carmaker to abandon
the vehicle that many people said was the most
influential automobile since
the Model T. When Ford introduced the Taurus in
1985, the fresh design
moved America away from the days of Boxy V8
powered cars to more aerodynamic
and fuel efficient vehicles with better
handling. Taurus was so futuristic
looking when it was introduced that it was
called "jellybean" and "flying
potato." Yet, the car equipped with 4 and 6
cylinder engines was an immediate
hit. It became the best selling car in America
in 1992 and held the top
spot for five years.
Jack Telnack, one of the
chief designers on the Taurus
project said executives at the company
challenged the design team to create
something radically different that would make
the company profitable again.
Taurus was the result. Telnack credits the car's
demise to a lack of attention.
Telnack says Ford focused on trucks and SUVs for
many years but saw the
market turn south due to recent high gas prices.
Telnack said the company
had not refined the car for ten years, and had
not invested money into
advertising. He added, "They put no money into
that product for the past
several years. They just let it wither on the
vine. It's criminal. The
car had a great reputation, a good name. I don't
understand what they were
waiting for."
—http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,223177,00.html.
Illustration
by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell.
Without attention a leader in
the automobile industry
falls, gardens become overrun with weeds, houses
become dirty and dingy,
and faith diminishes.
2
Timothy 1:6 (MSG) "And
the special gift of ministry you received when I
laid hands on you and
prayed—keep that ablaze!"
ATTENTION
A Louisiana man who was on his way to California
woke up on a dark,
empty airplane at the Houston airport after
apparently sleeping through
the call to exit. Tom Wagner said, he was
supposed to continue on
to California, but slept through the calls to
leave the plane and found
himself locked inside the plane overnight. He
called his girlfriend, who
didn’t believe him at first. He was finally
released after a crew servicing
the plane found him and let him out. A
spokesperson for the airline said
their policy requires the crew to do a final sweep
of the cabin and they
were not sure how Wagner was left onboard. The
company apologized and paid
for hotel in Houston as well as provided Wagner
with a $250 voucher for
the inconvenience.—Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell
Sleeping passenger locked in plane at Houston
airport, By Andrea Lorenz,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/09/us-usa-aircraft-texas-idUSBRE9B818Q20131209,
Accessed
December 9, 2013
1 Thessalonians 5:6 (NASB) so then let us not
sleep as others do, but
let us be alert and sober.
ATTENTION
Do you
ever have trouble staying on task? There is
a new product to help you by
monitoring what you’re paying attention to.
Auctify, a startup business, is
building a set of “anti-procrastination”
glasses. When you wear them, the
glasses know if you are looking where you
are supposed to be looking. It can
tell if you are looking at your computer
screen, a book, another person, or
whatever. You can even set alarms to remind
you when you are looking at the
wrong thing. If you are brave enough, at the
end of the day you can get a
breakdown of how you spent your time.
The Week,
October 2, 2020 p. 20
There are
many days I could use an app to keep me on
task. A lot of things we will never
accomplish if we don’t set our minds to the
job and not let interruptions get
us off track. — Jim Wilson and Rodger
Russell
Ecclesiastes 11:4 (CSB)
One
who watches
the wind will not sow,
and
the one who
looks at the clouds will not reap.
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