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...plan to work, VW must figure out how to act nimbly. It has a long history of drifting from profitable years to lean ones. Instead of following up hits from the '90s like the New Beetle and Passat, the Germans were either late or missed virtually every automotive trend: hybrids, crossovers, small SUVs. VW got so out of touch with U.S. consumers that in 2005 the company sent a group of employees, dubbed the Moonraker team, to the U.S. to spend a year figuring out what Americans wanted in a car. The answer: models designed specifically for this market...
...fact, right up until 9/11, it would be fair to say that it was almost overly averse to any form of military intervention in the domestic affairs of other nations. Most Republicans, for example, opposed America’s interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo during the 90s, humanitarian operations that involved no clear American interests. While I support both interventions, they are great examples of former Republican military restraint...
...think if you look at Afghanistan and what it was over five years ago, six years ago, a safe haven for al Qaeda; a location for training camps that trained 20,000 terrorists in the late '90s, that situation has significantly improved -- still got a lot of work to do; still got significant problems there. But the Taliban regime is gone. Karzai is in. There's been democratic elections, a new parliament sworn in, new constitution...
...able to break our will. They can't beat us in a stand-up fight. They never have. They go back and they cite evidence of Beirut in 1983 and Somalia in 1993, when they killed Americans and then Americans withdrew. They believe based on their experience in the '90s they could strike us with impunity, and that if they killed enough Americans, they could change American policy. They're trying to break our will. They think we don't have the stomach for the fight...
...PfoHo ’90s dance was as packed as ever. A diverse group of students danced to hit tunes spun by Fun Czar John T. Drake ’06 and the sound of 80 freshman girls dressed as the Spice Girls screaming in unison. Other attendees relived their ’90s-style social rejection by sipping Zima in the corner...