Word: dieselization
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...scoop on the new shuttles: Overcrowding in the shuttles, especially from Currier to the Science Center, has raised concerns for safety. Carl Tempesta is in charge of a vehicle replacement program in which one old red shuttle is replaced by a new white and all-diesel shuttle each year. The smaller of the new shuttles has perimeter seating in order to allow for more capacity...
Number of new diesel shuttles: Four...
...what should be the most drastic restructuring effort in Japanese corporate history. So far he has off-loaded a few subsidiaries (leasing and advertising), banned corporate entertainment and sold the company's 15-story headquarters on Tokyo's glitzy Ginza. In a more dramatic gesture two weeks ago, Nissan Diesel, the group's commercial-truck division, announced it was closing a plant in Gunma, north of Tokyo, and eliminating 3,000 jobs in the process--a radical move...
...DaimlerChrysler closer to Nissan, and the German-American auto giant may still step in to save the Japanese. Even before CEO Juergen Schrempp inked a deal to acquire Chrysler Corp. for $37 billion last May, his Stuttgart brain trust was urging him to buy a controlling stake in Nissan Diesel. That would give Daimler, the world's largest commercial-truck producer, a solid foothold in Asia...
...studying weather maps below, the autopilot misread the wind. The boat veered sharply and rolled over so quickly that Autissier barely had time to seal the cabin. "Everything was a wreck," she later told TIME via satellite. "The compartment was full of oil and diesel, and water was everywhere." Still, she dared not risk abandoning ship for a raft on the open sea. "That boat was my only survival," she said. "If it went down, I went down...