Word: sequoia
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...been trending younger, until it seemed that the next generation of the Hollywood élite would emerge not from high schools but from the womb. This summer, though, has brought good news for geriatric actors--those over 30. Harrison Ford, who at 66 is, in movie years, practically a sequoia, looked at least as vigorous as the Indiana Jones film he headlined. Comic-book epics also have middle-aged men in lead roles: Robert Downey Jr., 43, in Iron Man and 58-year-old Ron Perlman in Hellboy II. The cosmo-swigging quartet of Sex and the City range...
...Toyota, which is No. 2 in vehicle sales after General Motors Corp., plans to suspend temporarily its production of Tundra pickup trucks and the Sequoia sport utility vehicle, starting August 8. Suburban cowboys are dumping their trucks and SUVs in the face of higher gas prices, and Toyota is not immune. "They're facing the same structural problems as everybody else," said David Cole, chairman of the Center For Automotive Research in Ann Arbor. The names Tundra and Sequoia just scream "more...
...Production will halt at both the new Tundra plant in San Antonio, Texas, and one in Princeton, Ind. where the Sequoia was scheduled resume production in early November. "The truck market continues to worsen, so unfortunately we must temporarily suspend production," said Jim Wiseman, vice president/external affairs for Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America...
...Toyota employees in Texas and Southern Indiana, as well as at the automaker's motor plant in Huntsville, Ala., which builds V8 engines for Tundra and Sequoia, will continue to be provided various work projects through a program similar to the much-criticized "Jobs Banks" used by Detroit automakers that have supported workers during production cuts. "By using this downturn as an opportunity to develop team members and improve our operations, we hope to emerge even stronger," said Wiseman...
Vikram Akula, for one, thinks money-making and good works can be mutually beneficial. Akula runs SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinancier, which is at the forefront of the new-money trend. Last year SKS sold an $11.5 million stake to the private-equity shop Sequoia Capital in a first-of-its-kind deal. Talk of a projected 23% return on equity snapped many financiers to attention...