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That's a reversal for a company that has spent years focused on light trucks--and, even there, idled while Ford and General Motors dominated the trend-setting hip-hop market with such SUVs as the Lincoln Navigator and the Cadillac Escalade. Until now the DaimlerChrysler merger has been known mostly for plant closures, job cuts and jet-lagged executives. Moreover, Chrysler's gambit to charge premium prices with such new products as its luxe Pacifica wagon has met with resistance from consumers. The vehicle sold poorly out of the gate, and sales improved only after Chrysler cut prices...
Cassini-Huygens is widely thought to be the last of NASA's great Cadillac probes--multibillion-dollar ships stuffed with instruments and complex backup systems. In the planning stage for 19 years, the craft cost $1.4 billion to design and build and nearly $2 billion to fly. When NASA adopted its "faster, better, cheaper" philosophy in the 1990s, it drove the cost of its unmanned ships down to the range of a couple of hundred million dollars--mostly by relying on off-the-shelf parts and eliminating redundant systems...
...chief he had the power to order a nationwide news blackout. Today, the only real movement in and out of the shuttered complex is that of the resident abbot?a friend of Li's, according to local guide Fu Rongguang?who drives around the countryside in a chauffeured black Cadillac. To the rest of the world, the buddha might as well not exist?except that it can be plainly seen from miles away...
Walk absent-mindedly along the tree-dotted medians and you’ll be hard pressed to see even a hint of its presence, even though it’s all around you. Focus only on the packaged version of the Upper East Side presented in commercials for Cadillac or, more appropriately, Buick’s Park Avenue and you’ll miss it entirely. Peer below the green awnings that dominate the sidewalks and into the marble lobbies and you’ll catch a glimpse, though you still won?...
...season—29 games, 13 of them losses—to figure it out, but let’s not be nitpicky. This is like writing a couple awful thesis drafts before finally saying what you want to say, precisely how you want to say it. The Crimson Cadillac may have been grimed up for four months, but after Saturday, it’s looking shiny and spit-polished...