Word: cruiser
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...employees that the reform-minded Brown planned to fire once he took office. Cuffy had doubled his take-home pay to $90,000 by filing excessive overtime and had been accused of various infractions, including mistreating inmates at the jail, recklessly driving a sheriff's cruiser and disrespectfully polishing his boots with sheets at a hospital where he left an inmate alone...
...Lockerbie bombing, but also raised nagging doubts about the case. "Why did Pan Am 103 crash on Lockerbie, not into the Atlantic Ocean?" Swire asked. With that he pointed to a fundamentally different hypothesis for the bombing, based on two events earlier in 1988. On July 3 the U.S. cruiser Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airbus over the Strait of Hormuz, killing 290 people and fueling calls for revenge from hard-liners in the Iranian government. Pan Am 103 blew up less than six months after that incident, but more than two years after the bombing raids on Tripoli...
...Cruiser LITTLE TIKES, $49.99 Toy steering wheels have been around nearly as long as cars have. This one plugs into a computer to offer driving simulations, without crashes or other violent video-game traumas...
...like the old one, with expensive frills like power doors. Overproduction has forced the company to offer incentives of up to $4,000, tempting a loss on every sale. Chrysler even bungled its hottest product. There wasn't enough production capacity to meet demand for the wildly successful PT Cruiser, a hybrid retro minivan/station wagon. So even as auto-industry sales surged to a historic high last summer, Chrysler was beginning to hemorrhage...
...meantime, management actually reduced the retail price of the PT Cruiser $1,000, to $16,000, before it even hit the market. By last summer, when the Cruiser had become one of the year's automotive success stories, not only was Chrysler getting less per car, but management was still struggling with a concrete plan for cost-effectively increasing production...