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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Does all this rattle Mulally? "I think it's a tough situation," he says, adding that he thinks the company has a strong lineup of cars and trucks in the pipeline. But he also downplays any suggestions that he'll be Motown's Chainsaw Al - a guy who'll try and slash and burn his way into the black. "A momentum shift is how I'd characterize it," he says. Whether he'll shift Ford into a profitable gear remains to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford Motor's New Chief: "I Think It's a Tough Situation" | 9/6/2006 | See Source »

...offer is too low. Sometimes there's a bit of to-and-fro in the bidding, such as on a freezer chest that eventually fetches $620. But often any bid will do. A chair goes for a buck. A tarpaulin, a wheelbarrow, a birdcage, a garden sprayer and a chainsaw that doesn't work each fetch a pittance-but for the owners, the point is they're gone. Bidders have traveled as far as 25 km on the hunt for a bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Up For a Song | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

Patrick Bateman is smoking hot. He’s doing loads of cocaine. He’s wielding a chainsaw. And he’s a Harvard alum...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard ‘Psycho’ Kills 30-40 | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...hitchhiker. Armed theft, vandalism, and child-molestation come quickly to mind. I look over at the 10-year-old girl and even though Simon’s arm is just resting on his own thigh, I move it onto my lap. “‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ is too gory for me,” the doughy-faced woman proclaims with a chuckle. “That’s just not my type of scary movie.” “Me neither!” Simon says, even though it?...

Author: By Francesca M. Mari, | Title: The Hitchhiking Type | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

...episcopal priest, an architect, the head of a homeless coalition.As he traveled, he kept up a steady correspondence with friends, many of whom have bundles of his letters. Bingham was thoughtful, coming to help Runyon’s wife clear out the brush around their rural home with his chainsaw. “One Christmas, I was going to buy her a chainsaw,” Runyon says. “But it turned out that he had already got her one. Not only that but he had also gotten the goggles and gloves and taught...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bingham, 72, Heir to Media Empire, Dies | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

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