Word: sells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handful of companies have ever lived up to the Japan Inc. myth, and Nissan isn't one of them. Certainly its manufacturing and engineering prowess are world-class. And Nissan still builds first-rate automobiles. It simply doesn't make the right kind, nor does it know how to sell them. "We've failed to understand what the market wants," Hanawa told TIME early this month. "We're reflecting upon that." Deep meditation is more like it. Nissan has been paralyzed by its own bureaucracy and a legacy of tension between management and labor in Japan...
Maybe I'm not poor enough to be an mc, since I never actually needed to sell crack, a la also slain Biggie Smalls. Or maybe I'm not imaginative enough to deliver "Ten Crack Commandments" despite my relatively comfortable upbringing...
...subject is too sacred for the men of the HPT, who yearly tackle thorny issues of the day. Erik Amblad '99 assumes the controversial and theologically challenging role of the Reverend Hal Elujah, who must sell the word of God in disco-rhyme from a pulpit of rhinestones--undergoing a casually hidden, usually Russian and sexually appealin' internal drama in the process. If the body is a temple, there is a doctor in the room, and Elvis left the building, then Jesus brought the house down...
...reason for the bigger-is-better drive is strictly bottom line. ?Consumers have been saying these big vehicles are what they want,? says Christian, and automakers have been seeing nothing but green (as in greenbacks) for their SUVs. According to one report, the Ford Excursion is expected to sell for $45,000 to $50,000, yielding a hefty $12,000-to-$20,000-per-vehicle profit...
...Kilbourne, a frequent speaker at college campuses and a visiting scholar at Wellesley College, said the $36 billion food industry uses such connections to sell more food. She said that the industry's tendency to photograph food items in a close-up, sensual manner gives the products a mystique once afforded only to illicit affairs...