Word: benzes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Julie Benz...
While one of the girls in the trio, Marcie "Foxy" Fox (Julie Benz) follows Courtney's every move with adoration, the other, Julie Freeman (Rebecca Gayheart), is disgusted by Courtney's crass shallowness and utter lack of remorse and is thus ostracized from the group. Truly a person left to "the Karen Carpenter table, "Cue camerapan over to a table containing several emaciatedgirls sitting bleakly with no food in sight. Moresubtly, as the girls create a crime scene in Liz'sbedroom with the corpse, the song blaring in thebackground is, ironically enough. The Cars "LetThe Good Times Roll...
...industry is left asking--just as it did last year when Daimler-Benz and Chrysler forged the world's largest industrial marriage--which companies will be next? There is talk that DaimlerChrysler has eyes for debt-ridden Nissan. But Japanese automakers have been reluctant to sell more than a minority stake to foreign partners. Toyota remains a respected global player but has suffered along with the economies of all the Asian countries. Similarly, General Motors remains the world's largest automaker, with lucrative foreign alliances, but was set back by last year's strike...
...their image as the caviar of automobile brands, Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar spent much of the past decade longing for a little meat-and-potatoes appeal. Slumping sales in the U.S. had execs worried, as did the rising popularity of Japanese newcomer Lexus. The haughty Germans and the aristocratic Brits realized that the wealthier baby-boomer set--now in a buying frenzy--was turned off by the companies' stuffy image and limited product line. "Our cars were admired but were perceived as an unattainable icon," concedes Joe Eberhardt, vice president of marketing for Mercedes-Benz North America. "Our problem...
...Harvard held more than 1 million shares in Chrysler, which has since merged with Daimler-Benz and is now a pan-European corporation. Daimler-Chrysler was one of the first companies to convert to operating entirely in the euro and is expected to profit greatly from the new currency...