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...frantic loading and unloading of supplies. "At one point they needed rain gear and flashlight batteries. At another point all they wanted was aspirin and cold drinks." He estimates that in a 12-hour period on Wednesday, his volunteers, all of whom showed up that day, moved 100 pickup loads of supplies to the disaster area. People approached from all sides, handing him checks and cash...
...hands of Herington's five-man police department. Farmers in mud-caked boots, some holding small children in their arms, planted themselves across from the police station and stared mutely. Students just let out of school arrived and stood in clusters six deep. Some climbed into the beds of pickup trucks to get a better view. "Bring him out," they chanted. "Kill the creep...
...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...
...million expense to make free repairs on a faulty rear-door latch on older minivans--as well as a 7.2% decline in sales. Consumer Reports has grumbled about reliability problems on the 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Dodge Intrepid. And competition is getting tougher in the minivan, pickup and sport-utility fields that made Chrysler's revamped reputation. Though Eaton could still defend the numbers as "the second best pretax earnings we've ever had," that hasn't been enough to stop his company's shares from losing more than 20% of their value between January and mid-April...
...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...