Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hambach, France, is really seven separate factories, each occupied by a different systems partner. The chassis is shuffled off to a subfactory run by the German firm of Krupp Hoesch Automotive, where the power module is installed. Bosch plunks down the front end, which includes the cooler, headlights and crash box. German plastics, chemical and industrial-ceramics company Dynamit Nobel snaps on plastic body panels and the whole vehicle is done in four hours--down from the 20 or so it takes a traditional car manufacturer. "It's an admirable experiment," says Volvo's Franzen. "They've gone and outsourced...
...serial predictions of anarchy never came true. The markets did not crash, the public did not rush to judgment, fact and fiction met but didn't merge, and the unending Senate trial took precisely 37 days. Within moments of the vote, the Senators were cheering the Chief Justice and one another, and no one lunged for anyone else's throat. The U.S. is still a superpower, and the only elected President to be impeached is still the leader of the free world...
Rubin has had his star turns as well. In late 1997 he probably single-handedly stopped a panic about Korean debt from avalanching into a U.S. market crash by working the phones, convincing international bankers that they should cut Korea a break. It was not a welcome pitch. "This is a hell of a Christmas present," one banker moaned to Rubin on Christmas Eve. But Rubin's scheme saved the banks billions because if Korea had crashed, the banks could have lost everything. "It was Bob who actually got the banks to see how it worked to their benefit," Greenspan...
...Hankins, while disturbed by the state of events, consented to give them "remedial Renaissance history." After the crash course, both passed and managed to graduate. One has even remained in contact with him, but not to talk about history. "One of them wants his grade changed. He tells me the honor of his family depends on his getting a B," Hankins deadpans...
...really ridiculous programming: stunt TV. Nash is bringing back a version of the '50s show You Asked for It, only instead of viewers asking to see the vault at Fort Knox, they'll be treated to five-legged pigs and lady sumo wrestlers. Nelson's next project is Crash Test, in which producers pick things to blow up. (The first two ideas: exploding 1,000 parking meters and throwing a Corvette off a building.) Meanwhile, Lachman is working on a show in which he'll sink a ship and tape it going down in real time. By then, with luck...