Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bounty in 1961. (Besides Cheyenne, they also had an older son Teihotu.) When Cheyenne was 20, she had a heated telephone argument with her father when he wouldn't let her fly from Tahiti to Canada, where he was filming The Freshman, and she responded by driving her Jeep into a ditch at high speed. Brando then had her flown to a Los Angeles hospital, where he kept a bedside vigil after her extensive surgery...
...knew this, but our anger and fear kept getting the better of us. Why didn't they get behind us? Why didn't they care that we were dying for them? Yet every time we slapped someone around, or trashed a village, or shouted curses from a jeep, we defined ourselves as the enemy and thereby handed more power and legitimacy to the people we had to beat...
...underlying value. If the U.S. economy manages to maintain moderate growth with low inflation, car sales might not suffer as they did in the last recession. And a seasoned asset stripper like Kerkorian might not hesitate to sell off some of the company's high-performance divisions, like Jeep. "I think it's a $100-per-share stock," says David Cole, head of the University of Michigan's auto-industry think tank...
...design and manufacturing process to become the most profitable U.S. automaker. It also shed nonessential businesses like Gulfstream corporate aircraft, acquired in the 1980s under Iacocca. For 1994, Chrysler reported a record profit of $3.7 billion on revenues of $52 billion. Dodge Ram pickup trucks, Cirrus sedans and the Jeep Grand Cherokee were established hits, and promising new products like the Neon had come on market. Toyota engineers even went to the trouble of disassembling a Neon to study its workings...
...this year. Chrysler execs blamed high launch costs for its redesigned minivan and the $115 million expense to make free repairs on a faulty rear-door latch on older minivans--as well as a 7.2% decline in sales. Consumer Reports has grumbled about reliability problems on the 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Dodge Intrepid. And competition is getting tougher in the minivan, pickup and sport-utility fields that made Chrysler's revamped reputation. Though Eaton could still defend the numbers as "the second best pretax earnings we've ever had," that hasn't been enough to stop his company...