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...indulging themselves or managing to save. Instead, they sent monthly checks, paid apartment deposits, covered medical, utility and tax bills, and clothed and fed their grown children and grandchildren. They once even made a $750 car payment when a daughter vacationing in Spain called home to complain that her Thunderbird might be repossessed if they did not come up with the money immediately. Only when the father suffered a massive heart attack did the two parents realize they simply could not continue to give their children more money without ever expecting any repayment. They learned that they might have retired...
...slew of small-time operators and hopefuls. They don't have the budgets to match the big boys, so they have to use their imaginations, a process that results in bikini-clad girls draped over cut-outs of show stars as though they were the latest Ford Thunderbird. Other stands touting wildlife programs offered you the exciting opportunity to be photographed with a small mammal and a show host, usually clad in what looked like a jungle outfit from...
Even as Chrysler hurries to increase supply, another entry in the nostalgia sweepstakes is on the way. Next summer an incarnation of the classic 1955 Ford Thunderbird will appear. The Thunderbird (so named by a young Ford stylist who was rewarded with a $95 bonus and a pair of trousers from Saks Fifth Avenue) started out as a snazzy two-seater weighing 3,000 lbs. and costing $2,695. It eventually evolved into a giant sedan weighing more than 5,000 lbs. that was finally discontinued in 1997. The new model, slimmed down to roadster size and fitted with familiar...
...country is turning to outside help, like the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, which was funded by the city's municipal government and the European Union. Another program is the Center for Business Skills Development, established in Shanghai two years ago in affiliation with Arizona's Thunderbird American Graduate School of International Management. Despite steep fees--about $10,000 annually, more than three times what a Chinese program costs--and an English-language curriculum, such programs are raking in applicants. Some multinational firms are doling out thousands of dollars in tuition scholarships...
...nowhere else to go. But many others were a relatively new breed: refugees from managed care--which managed not to be available to them. "More people seem to be told, 'We can't see you until next week,'" says Dr. Kathryn Perkins, who has watched annual patient volume at Thunderbird's ED nearly double in the past five years. "When nobody will see them, they come here...