Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nissan still has a lot to offer. Its engine technology is the best in the business, say many experts. And so are its manufacturing plants. The Smyrna, Tenn., factory where it makes the Altima, Sentra and Frontier models has been ranked North America's most efficient for five years (although slow sales idled the plant every Friday for 16 weeks last year). Nissan also offers a window onto Asia's market, which could be a bonanza when it finally recovers...
...TIME's Person Of The Year: It may be too early even to start thinking of who it will be, but Monica Lewinsky has got to be the current front runner. GRAYCE K. BARCK New Smyrna Beach...
...space station were an automobile, you can be sure it would be up on blocks in someone's backyard." ED TROSTER Smyrna, Tenn...
...other low-cost carriers are already feeling the shock waves. Mark McDonald, president and CEO of Nations Air Express, a 15-month-old start-up based in Smyrna, Georgia, says the ValuJet crash has had "a tremendous impact" on his business. "Our bookings have been dropping about 40% a day [since the crash]," he says. "There is a lot of concern out there, and it's not getting any better." Jordan, who last week appointed retired Air Force General James B. Davis as ValuJet's new "safety czar," remains convinced, though, that his company--and passengers--can again fly high...
What it's like: [Smyrna is] really similar to the rural South--I grew up on a farm and I come from a whole family of farmers. We moved into town when I grew older but we used to live in an old farmhouse with a wood-burning stove. We kept pigs and chickens. We had a goat too but eventually my dad killed...