Word: nadir
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...wasn't until Finbarr O'Neill came along that Hyundai started hitting on all cylinders. An unassuming New York City attorney who took over the company's U.S. operations in 1998, O'Neill walked into the top job the same year sales reached their nadir. "We knew our quality was better and styling was improving," he recalls. "But nobody was showing up." So O'Neill and Hyundai's dealers (those who were left) offered the industry's first 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty, called the Hyundai Challenge...
...fall of Kohl took on elements of a Greek tragedy, complete with reversals of fortune and fatal character flaws. It probably reached a nadir late last week, when Wolfgang Hullen, the official in charge of finance for the C.D.U.'s parliamentary faction, hanged himself at home as the Bundestag opened its investigation into the funding scandal. While the reasons for the suicide remain hazy, Hullen apparently feared being arrested for diverting some of the party's huge cash flow into his own account. But he's not likely to be the scandal's last victim. It has already touched...