Word: titanic
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...where Nissan earns the bulk of its profits, full-size vehicles like the Armada SUV and Titan pickup need generous incentives to sell, even as gas prices have come down. Armada and Titan drove Nissan into new segments but not without picking up some dents. Both models have scored dismally in consumer surveys of vehicle reliability, tarnishing Nissan's image as a high-quality Japanese brand...
...slowed sales, for instance, but the problems are being addressed. Nissan has streamlined the way it deals with quality issues, creating teams to focus on specific complaints, like squeaks and rattles or wind noise, and nip them in the planning stage or on the assembly line. The Armada and Titan are scoring better in Consumer Reports surveys. "We're putting in the resources," Ghosn says. "It takes time, but we're working on it." He's also promising to smooth out the product cycle, aiming to launch models on a more regular basis, and he says Nissan will eventually sell...
Nissan entered a new segment with the Titan full-size pickup truck, top, and went for coolness with the Quest minivan. Both models have sold poorly this year and dinged Nissan's reputation for quality and stylish design
DIED. Buddy Killen, 73, powerful Nashville music publisher and songwriter who launched the careers of Dolly Parton and Whisperin' Bill Anderson and turned Tree International, the company he ran with Grand Ole Opry manager Jack Stapp, into a music-publishing titan; of liver and pancreatic cancer; in Nashville. Killen's songs became hits for performers like Conway Twitty (I May Never Get to Heaven) and the Little Dippers (Forever). In 1989, in a deal that marked a new high for country music, he sold Tree International to CBS for more than $30 million...
...about a baked version? The latest trend is medical devices that use new noninvasive technologies that produce natural-looking results and let patients get back to work quickly. On the table: tools that use radio frequencies (Thermage), plasma gas (Portrait), infrared light (Titan), light-emitting diodes (GentleWaves), pulsed light (Palomar Medical Technologies' Lux system) and lasers (Fraxel, Vbeam) to smooth out and tighten the skin and soften the appearance of wrinkles. Syneron's eMax uses radio frequencies and light energies and costs about $175,000. According to Shiu-Yik Au, an analyst for Millennium Research Group, the market for aesthetic...