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that protected the compound. The second vehicle, a Dodge pickup loaded with explosives, followed close behind. It barreled into a central area and exploded between two five-story buildings. At the nearby al-Hamra complex, two other explosives-laden vehicles were detonated near a pool where a party was in progress. By the time the smoke cleared from the three assaults last Monday, 34 were dead, and 200 more were wounded. The dead included nine Americans and nine of the assassins...
...Costello chose to work in steel mills rather than the coal mines where his father toiled because he believed steel jobs were more secure. Now he is scrapping plans to build a long-planned retirement house and says he will not be replacing his 13-year-old pickup truck anytime soon. "You have to make choices," he says, "between a house payment, a car payment or medicine...
...assault on Detroit's most profitable models. The Titan was designed by a California-based team of mostly Americans, who Nissan thought could best understand the U.S. truck crowd's preferences. About 85% of the Titan's components come from U.S. suppliers. And it will be built in the pickup-loving South, which Nissan hopes will add credibility. Says Ghosn (pronounced Goan): "The market is sensitive to the fact that this product is assembled...
...costs for both parties. Nissan's suppliers also preassemble "modules," say, for a front-end or cockpit, and deliver them in the sequence in which they're needed on the line: a batch of leather-finished cockpits for SUVs, followed by plastic-finished versions and then different cockpits for pickup trucks. Nissan's paint shop was designed for high flexibility too, using robotic painters that are programmed to switch spray patterns based on the model...
...ahead of Chrysler and Ford in standardizing platforms across models, which reduces development costs. The influence of its North American chairman and product guru, former Chrysler and Ford executive Robert Lutz, 71, is emerging: Cadillacs are rolling out with bold designs and high performance, Chevy is launching the SSR pickup convertible, and Pontiac is reviving its 1960s muscle car, the GTO. In areas of engineering weakness, GM is swallowing its pride and outsourcing: Saturn's 2004 VUE SUV will use Honda engines...