Word: auto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...monster seems to be biting the reputation of Ford's new chairman, William Clay Ford Jr., great-grandson of the founder, who has promised to lead the auto industry into a pollution-free future. But Ford executives know that big, gas-thirsty vehicles are where the consumers and the cash meet. For years, General Motors has raked in oversize profits with the Chevrolet Suburban, long the standard-bearer among land yachts. Analysts say the spacious Suburban holds $10,000 to $15,000 in profit per vehicle. When the Excursion roars into showrooms this fall with a projected sticker price...
Menchu, a Quiche Mayan, won the Nobel peace Prize in 1992 after this auto-biographical work was published, which details the terrors perpetrated against her family during the Guatemalan insurrection. But since the prize was awarded, the book's authorship and the truth of its accounts have been called into question...
...report also cites the confusing streetlayout in the city as contributing to the numberof auto thefts; criminals can exit the city vianumerous bridges to Boston or hurry intoSomerville or Arlington after stealing cars...
...hardly radical enough, which is one reason why Hanawa is committing miuri. In one remarkable January week, Nissan became the most talked-about company in the global auto business because everyone with a little extra cash wanted a piece of it. Even tiny Renault piped up that it had French-government backing to acquire a controlling stake in the world's seventh largest carmaker. Renault could afford it because that week Nissan's stock price had sunk low enough so that a 33.4% share (which counts in Japan as a controlling interest) was worth around $2.8 billion--or barely half...
Still, the hint of a deal with Ford was enough to pull DaimlerChrysler closer to Nissan, and the German-American auto giant may still step in to save the Japanese. Even before CEO Juergen Schrempp inked a deal to acquire Chrysler Corp. for $37 billion last May, his Stuttgart brain trust was urging him to buy a controlling stake in Nissan Diesel. That would give Daimler, the world's largest commercial-truck producer, a solid foothold in Asia...