Word: scrapped
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...Ghosn is running a little rough these days, it would be understandable. Seven years ago, Nissan was practically scrap metal: it had a fleet of dull cars, a tangled mess of suppliers, unproductive plants and $20 billion in debt. Ghosn was given the job of salvage man after his bosses at Renault bought a controlling stake. Born in Brazil and reared in Lebanon, Ghosn found his way to tire giant Michelin, where he developed his restructuring chops. But he had never run a car company, let alone a Japanese one, and almost everyone bet against him: a foreigner with...
...Ortega was a bona fide guerrilla hero who had helped lead the Sandinista insurrection that overthrew the tyrant Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. But Ortega proved to be a clueless and corrupt head of state, and after his 1990 electoral humiliation, he had looked set for the Cold War scrap heap. He failed in presidential bids in 1996 and 2001, and in 1998 his stepdaughter, Zoilamerica Narvaez, accused him of sexually molesting her throughout the 1980s and stalking her in the '90s, a charge Ortega denies...
...spent more than $1 million on TV ads attacking challenger James Webb for, among other things, a 1979 article opposing women in combat and his novels, whose raunchy sex scenes incumbent George Allen called "demeaning to women." This close to Election Day, there are still plenty of votes to scrap for: a recent Missouri poll found 5% of men are unsure but 9% of women still in play...
...lives in a small mud hut in the village of Lipunga, which sits close to the Zambian border about 112 miles west of Malawi's capital, Lilongwe. Poor and uneducated, Banda tends a patch of maize and a vegetable garden and every now and again gets a job reworking scrap metal. When his wife Malita Lungu, a Zambian who gave birth to David across the border in her native country, died just a week after David was born, Banda struggled to raise his son with the help of relatives and friends. But a month later he sent David...
...waste oil. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has already pledged $5,000 to the program, and the EAC has received almost $2,000 from outside donations, Tchou said. Fueled only by waste oil, the truck shuttles large objects such as furniture, computers, and scrap metal around campus. The real test will come when Cambridge enters its winter months. To continue running in the sub-zero temperatures, the vegetable oil will have to be preheated to 180 degrees just to remain in liquid form. But advocates of the project are undaunted by the impending bitter...