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...most wonderful car and people still won't buy it." The Daimler people are hoping that won't happen to them. The troubles at Daimler follow years of restructuring after the 1998 merger of Daimler and Chrysler, and persistent quality problems at the Japanese commercial-vehicle subsidiary, Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. But quality is what the Mercedes brand is especially known for, and that's the area where the firm is hurting itself most. Customer complaints prompted the record recall, and even German taxi drivers are switching allegiance. Since 2001, Mercedes' share of new taxi registrations in Germany...
...would drive along the highways of South Texas picking up dead animals. Once you've dry-heaved for the thousandth time in the back of a dump truck with dead dogs and raccoons, you do some soul searching about vocational choices that you will not be making later in life...
Recently, as I walked back to Eliot, I turned my head to see a Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) truck headed down the street. A la Dionne “Dee” Davenport from “Clueless,” I was unable to turn my head without moving my entire body and, of course, tripped into the road. The patient gentleman behind the wheel gave me a suspicious look, shook his head, released a sigh that was audible through the car window, and gestured for me to cross...
...time, was devoured by double-digit monthly inflation. When three of his brothers died of aids, he found himself responsible for their eight children and other needy relatives. Nzira now lives in Johannesburg, where he works for an environmental group. But every three months he fills his truck with groceries for a trip to his mother's village, where a total of 11 family members rely on him for support. "We are not here because we want to be here, but because we have to be here," he says. "I love Zimbabwe, but the way things are now, we wouldn...
...died, and she ended up in enemy captivity, with both arms broken and a bullet in her shoulder. During her eight days as a pow - one of only two female U.S. prisoners in that war - she was kissed and groped by an Iraqi soldier in the back of a truck. Cornum opted to keep quiet, but when she yelped in pain from her injuries, the soldier stopped. The incident made her an instant celebrity in the U.S. - living proof that even under the worst circumstances, American women were fit for combat. But Cornum, 50, says she put that "in pile...