Word: nicks
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...NICK TENG -- Plainview...
...Daewoo, under CEO Nick Reilly, is now being resurrected as a low-cost manufacturing base for GM's own brands and for those of its Japanese partner Suzuki. In the U.S., Daewoo makes the compact Chevrolet Aveo and Suzuki Forenza, and it also exports to China, India, Latin America and Europe. In 2004, the company produced 900,000 cars?three times the output when GM took over?and this year, Reilly expects sales to top 1 million. Daewoo's work force has increased by 4,000 in the last two years...
When shopkeepers are worried about slow Christmas sales, they call on St. Nick for help. That is the theory behind the Santa Claus indicator, which holds that when the number of Santa Clauses goes up, Christmas sales are likely to be down. If the Santa Claus indicator is correct, this year may not be a sleigh-bell ringer for retailers. Western Temporary Services, a California-based employment agency and leading Santa supplier for department stores, last week announced that its bookings are up 15% over 1984, when it placed 3,000 St. Nicks...
...political class finds this show, it may be working. Faced with polls showing Labour still gaining, Conservative leader Michael Howard redoubled his emotional appeal to "ordinary, decent folk, who know that things are wrong but are being intimidated into silence" by Blair's crowd of trendy metropolitans. Nick Sparrow, head of the pollster ICM, pointed out this was awkward turf for the Tories, "banging on about second-order issues," while Labour, though tarnished, "focuses on the economy, schools and hospitals people care most about." Dull and worthy, it would seem, still have their place...
...hear much from the generation that discovered you in syndication? I started getting a whole lot more fan mail in crayon when we went on Nick at Nite...