Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made a tremendous turnaround, streamlining its 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...
...well introduce yourself to every single person you meet. Next year, you can then confidently stride up to the most attractive first-years in the Union and say, "Hey, didn't I meet you during pre-frosh weekend?" It's Harvard's official first-year pickup line...
...mine gold in the world's largest remaining virgin cloud forest, in Costa Rica. Left battles right, state clashes with university, and faculty members pummel one another in front of TV cameras. Some of them see the campus as a marketplace, some as a battlefield, some as a pickup joint and some as a "passing microclimate." None of them think it may be a place of learning. As Smiley notes wryly of one academic, "The well-known reluctance of midwesterners to talk about actual sums of money worked in his favor, since refusal to talk about it made...
...Sunday afternoon, and the fourth floor of the MAC is alive with athletic activity. Among the usual games of pickup basketball, some organized activity draws attention to the far court. The court is made up for volleyball, and 20 or more students are moving through a serving drill in a diligent and orderly fashion. One man stands in the middle of the scene shouting encouragement to the players. These are not the giants of the varsity volleyball team; they are the men and women of Dunster volleyball, an intramural machine fueled by a man with a vision...
...proposed Boston pickup site is KenmoreSquare, but additional spots could includeBrighton St. or Boylston St., Schmitt said. And upto two more Harvard drop-off sites could be addedto the current Quad, Yard and Quincy Houselocations...