Word: cadillacs
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...blunder to another. Worst among them were the cookie-cutter cars. The idea behind them was to save on manufacturing costs, one of Smith's abiding principles. But the look-alike models blurred the historical marketing distinction GM had carefully cultivated between Chevrolet at the bottom of the market, Cadillac at the top and Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick in between. None of the cookie-cutter cars will make it to the Automotive Hall of Fame...
...plans to shut down the division entirely, contrary to rumors that it might do so. In its new guise, Olds plans to concentrate on midsize cars to compete with the likes of the Ford Taurus and Toyota Camry, giving up most of the big- car market to Buick and Cadillac...
Knighton was 14 and living with his father when he began selling crack cocaine. A year later, he was stealing cars and running a $1,000-a-day drug operation. His life savings -- what he called his "bank account" -- was $30,000 worth of crack and a gold Cadillac. As the boy began making big money, he became a target himself. That inspired him to get his first gun. Weapons were so plentiful that he never had to buy one but simply borrowed from friends. Openly proud of the firearms he has used, Knighton smiles fondly as he recalls each...
Smith's handpicked group of bureaucracy busters, who work 15-hour days and call themselves "the cowboys," aim to liberate each of GM's brand-name divisions to give them back their long-stifled control over styling, engineering and marketing decisions. Each division, from Cadillac to Chevrolet, will be expected to survive virtually on its own. Already, the layers of approval required for manufacturing decisions have been reduced by half. Individual engineering components that fail to add style or identity to a product have been dramatically reduced: 17 different ignition systems have been refined to three, nine engine families...
...CADILLACS NEVER DIE," OBSERVES the great trumpet player and immortal bopcat at the close of Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. "The finance company just fade 'em away." DIZZY GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump...