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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-wheel-drive, five-cylinder turbodiesel Benzes cost about $5 million, or $80,000 apiece. The new interim fast-attack vehicle (obviously a name chosen by the corps, not the manufacturer) comes in military green, with a canvas top, and has six seats--two more than the jeep. While it may lack the fancy seats and stereos sold to civilians, the IFAV does sport mounts for assorted machine guns and grenade-launchers, as well as a snorkel that will keep air flowing to the engine in 30-in.-deep water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense Mechanisms | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...four-wheel-drive, five-cylinder turbodiesel Benzes cost about $5 million, or $80,000 apiece. The new interim fast-attack vehicle (obviously a name chosen by the Corps, not the manufacturer) comes in military green, with a canvas top, and has six seats - two more than the jeep. While it may lack the fancy seats and stereos sold to civilians, the IFAV does sport mounts for assorted machine guns and grenade launchers, as well as a snorkel that will keep air flowing to the engine in 30-inch-deep water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Semper Fine! Marines Get the Ride of Their Life | 12/19/1999 | See Source »

After a two-year-long war against factional leaders, notably Rafael Munoz Talavera, found shot to death in his jeep in Juarez in September 1998, Vicente secured his bid to succeed his brother. He has since been indicted in El Paso, Texas, and in Mexico on drug-trafficking charges. Many of the bodies being unearthed south of Juarez are believed to be victims in that war, as are any Americans who Mexican officials say might be among the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valley Of Death | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...ridiculous for freshmen to live in the Yard and park their cars all the way in the B-school" says Devon R. Quasha '02 who shares a Jeep Cherokee with her twin brother Grant. Last year, after trekking to Allston to pick up their car, they attained a spot in DeWolfe during the wintertime. This year, assuming that DeWolfe would be his SUV's home, Grant, who is a Crimson Editor, continued to park his car in DeWolfe. Still, he entered the lottery like everyone else...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard Parking Uncovered | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...walks into a major department store in Paris wearing Caterpillar boots, a Jack Daniels cap, Club Med shades, a Cadillac polo shirt and Marlboro jeans. He smells ruggedly of Chevrolet aftershave. He buys a set of Le Cordon Bleu cookware for his wife and a Jeep radio-CD player for himself. To pay, he flips opens his Harrods leather wallet and whips out a Jaguar Visa card. He's branded to the hilt, and the embodiment of European consumerism for the new millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brand New Goods | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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