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...Daisy, the dog." Budget director Mitch Daniels will give it to his daughter to save - "but she may find a way to spend it," he says hopefully. Multimillionaire Donald Rumsfeld is opting for services - he says he'll use it to pay his accountant. And Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who's signing the checks, is giving it to charity...
...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...
Showrooms started filling with new customers almost instantly. One attraction was the innovative, even offbeat styling of a couple of new models. The compact Santa Fe SUV was designed in the company's California studio to "cut through the clutter" of look-alike products, says O'Neill. The new XG300, a luxury sedan that at $25,000 is the most expensive car Hyundai has ever offered, also has a distinctive appearance...
Management's ultimate goal is to become one of the world's top five automakers. That will require finding another gear. But the joke quotient is certainly down, and as O'Neill points out, "that's a pretty good index of our progress...
...Earlier this week U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said the European Commission, "not elected by anyone," was meddling "outside their jurisdiction" in the GE-Honeywell case. How do you explain this ruling to him and the millions of Americans who seem just as baffled...