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...Presidents during that time, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Both were Governors of Southern states. Neither was a well-known party leader. Neither ran on what many Democrats would consider a traditional--that is, liberal--agenda. Carter was the first born-again Christian President; Clinton once owned a pickup truck with AstroTurf carpeting in the back. Carter won because he seemed a simple, honorable antidote to the excessive dishonesty of the Nixon era. Clinton won because he was far more talented than his opponents--George H. W. Bush and Bob Dole--but also because he rejected his party's orthodoxy...
Nissan's strategy, championed by turnaround CEO Carlos Ghosn, exemplifies the latest transplant wave: a direct assault on Detroit's most profitable models. The Titan was designed by a California-based team of mostly Americans, who Nissan thought could best understand the U.S. truck crowd's preferences. About 85% of the Titan's components come from U.S. suppliers. And it will be built in the pickup-loving South, which Nissan hopes will add credibility. Says Ghosn (pronounced Goan): "The market is sensitive to the fact that this product is assembled...
HUPD Officer James P. Sullivan recalls when Tonis switched the department’s uniforms from gray shirts to white shirts. When asked why, Tonis explained that his son had commented that the gray shirts made the officers look like truck drivers—and Tonis wanted to project the aura of authority...
...watches as a spool on the company’s 1957 tractor cab winds up metal cables pulling the house into place. Since the lot is too small for a truck to drive the house in, crew members work under the house to point the wheels in the right direction...
About ten minutes later, Eddy N. Couturier climbs down from a truck he was manuevering out of the way. He spent most of the day on the street overseeing his six-man crew in a white hardhat...