Word: truckful
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...drastic restructuring effort in Japanese corporate history. So far he has off-loaded a few subsidiaries (leasing and advertising), banned corporate entertainment and sold the company's 15-story headquarters on Tokyo's glitzy Ginza. In a more dramatic gesture two weeks ago, Nissan Diesel, the group's commercial-truck division, announced it was closing a plant in Gunma, north of Tokyo, and eliminating 3,000 jobs in the process--a radical move...
...still step in to save the Japanese. Even before CEO Juergen Schrempp inked a deal to acquire Chrysler Corp. for $37 billion last May, his Stuttgart brain trust was urging him to buy a controlling stake in Nissan Diesel. That would give Daimler, the world's largest commercial-truck producer, a solid foothold in Asia...
...lesson to be gleaned from Jasper, Texas, is not that a racist murderer, John William King, was convicted and sentenced to die on Thursday for the horrific dragging death of a black man behind a pickup truck. The lesson, says TIME correspondent Sam Gwynne, is that the community did not blow apart over the crime; it let the criminal justice system run its course...
...different kind of green (as in environment) is raising all sorts of red flags from environmentalists. The Sierra Club has already dubbed the Excursion a ?suburban assault vehicle? and one of the group's officials described it as ?a garbage truck that dumps its pollution into the sky.? That the new gas guzzler should be a Ford is rather ironic, says Christian. Company chairman William Clay Ford has vowed to make the automaker the leader in developing clean vehicles. Ford's explanation of the apparent Excursion eco-paradox: SUV consumers are not particularly concerned about gas consumption; nevertheless, the vehicle...
John William King, who was convicted of murder on Tuesday, was one of three white men charged in the death of James Byrd Jr. last June. Dr. Brown testified that Byrd was alive for aproximately half of the three miles he was dragged behind a pickup truck along a rural East Texas road. He died after slamming into a culvert...