Word: busful
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...wonderful car and people still won't buy it." The Daimler people are hoping that won't happen to them. The troubles at Daimler follow years of restructuring after the 1998 merger of Daimler and Chrysler, and persistent quality problems at the Japanese commercial-vehicle subsidiary, Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. But quality is what the Mercedes brand is especially known for, and that's the area where the firm is hurting itself most. Customer complaints prompted the record recall, and even German taxi drivers are switching allegiance. Since 2001, Mercedes' share of new taxi registrations in Germany has fallen...
...Banna loved America. During his nearly two years in the U.S., al-Banna, a lawyer by training, made a living as a factory worker, a shuttle-bus driver and a pizza tosser. He went to the World Trade Center and the Golden Gate Bridge, grew his hair long and listened to Nirvana. He told his family back in Jordan about the honesty and kindness of Americans. "They respect anybody who is sincere," he told his father. He said he had planned to marry an American woman until her parents demanded that the wedding take place in a Christian church...
...those guys wanted to build the program,” Leaman said. “They wanted to leave their mark on something. We knew as a coaching staff which way it was going. We felt that we were getting the right pieces and the right guys on the bus. Guys like Noah, guys like Tyler Kolarik—they got things going...
That changes when a personal decision becomes a public act. A man who rode the Montgomery buses in 1950 wasn’t making a statement of any kind. But after Rosa Parks gave that rider a chance to attack segregation by attacking the bus system, the decision to ride started to mean something different. The same rider, doing the same thing, in 1956, was sending the wrong message and hurting an important movement...
...rally bus will take Crimson fans down to Providence...