The two highest-end versions offer memory bucket seats with a center-console shifter, like a luxury sedan.
KBB.com asked visitors to its car-shopping website last week what sort of shifter they preferred.
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Shifter also predicted that a Maduro administration would not maintain warm relations with the United States.
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Performers will include Nick Yulman and his robotic orchestra and electronic music by chiptunes artist Bit Shifter.
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Obama is likely receptive to that message, said Michael Shifter, a vice president at the Inter-American Dialogue.
Options on my test vehicle included black leather trimmed bucket seats, a leather shifter and a cargo cover.
The center console area includes the palm shifter (inspired by a PC mouse) for the "by wire" drive selector.
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For this fall and winter, Mr. Kimmel has stitched a true shape-shifter in the form of an extendable "hunter" coat.
"I think Obama is going to understand that Mexico is very important to the United States, " Shifter told CNN last week.
"The result is that going ahead, any future government is going to have to put this front and center, " Shifter said.
"The big thing U.S. could do is change its Cuba policy, " said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, D.
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The systems will all be modular, meaning you can package any wheel, pedals, shifter, and handbrake combination that your budget will allow.
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The Duo City has an eight speed internal Shimano shifter, which my neighbor fawned over, who bikes daily on New York City streets.
"All of the people who are potential successors of Chavez are people who are polarizing and confrontational, " Shifter told CNN earlier this year.
E-mail is a notorious context shifter (at least in my mind).
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Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy forum on Western Hemisphere affairs, predicted that a Maduro administration would find it tough to govern.
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But even if he wins a six-year term as president, Maduro would not be on solid ground, given the country's profound economic and security problems, Shifter said.
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He will probably get my vote, however, as I could not vote for Mitt Romney, who just comes across as a shape-shifter in his quest for votes.
The president's programs provided assistance without creating jobs, Shifter said.
Inside, the cockpit is clearly oriented toward the driver, with a racing-inspired three-spoke steering wheel, a steel bar and metal cage for the shifter, and burnished metal flourishes throughout.
"We had people telling us the light on the gear shifter was too bright, it is irritating me and I see it out of the corner of my eye, " Mr. Betts said.
Mercedes-Benz, for example, has programmed cars to stop and go into Park when the door is opened, no matter whether the driver has correctly engaged the Park button used on certain shifter stalks.
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What you won't hear McGovern boast about is the telematics (GPS and other interactive systems) monitor that hides in the center console, or the paddle-control automatic transmission shifter that resides on the steering column.
The basic gear order must be Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, and a low gear, usually designated with an L. The movement to Drive from Neutral must be a clockwise motion on a column mounted shifter.
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"My sense is that Hondurans are finding themselves in a desperate situation and they really want U.S. cooperation, and that gives the U.S. some margin to make mistakes, " said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue.
"This is simply a sad situation where there was a lot of promise and a lot of hope and a lot of possibilities, but his appetite for power and disdain for institutions has made it unsuccessful, " Shifter said.
"The most positive legacy that Chavez has is that he put his finger on a legitimate grievance that many Venezuelans have: social injustice, " said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a research and policy center in Washington.
By now, everyone knows Romney has a credibility problem with all conservatives who wonder if he really believes what they believe, or if he is a political shape-shifter who might again become moderate if they help make him President.
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