Word: viper
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will take you only so far: there's always an element of gut, and of risk. Lutz used his gut to propel a struggling Chrysler to greatness in the 1990s with a series of cars and trucks that initially raised eyebrows internally but have since became household names: the Viper, the Ram pickup, the PT Cruiser...
...producer of such 1970s movie hits as The Sting and Taxi Driver, whose biting 1991 book, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, scandalized Hollywood; of cancer; in West Hollywood, Calif. Phillips skewered herself along with celebrities like Warren Beatty ("priapic") and Mike Ovitz ("a Valley viper") in her book. Of the angry reaction in Hollywood, Phillips said, "I wasn't a pariah because I was a drug-addicted...rotten person [but] because I lit them with a harsh fluorescent light and rendered them as contemptible as they truly...
...Panama, and it was really hard to find Manuel Noriega. The U.S. Army knew Panama really well. Even if you have troops on the ground, you need to have spectacularly good intelligence and know exactly where you are going. You have to be vectored right on to the viper's nest. You go in there and shoot it up and look at all the faces and make sure you got the right guy. It is hard to envision a situation where you would get that perfect tactical intelligence for a ground attack." That hasn't dissuaded Bush. "Make no mistake...
...Panama, and it was really hard to find Manuel Noriega. The U.S. Army knew Panama really well. Even if you have troops on the ground, you need to have spectacularly good intelligence and know exactly where you are going. You have to be vectored right on to the viper's nest. You go in there and shoot it up and look at all the faces and make sure you got the right guy. It is hard to envision a situation where you would get that perfect tactical intelligence for a ground attack." That hasn't dissuaded Bush. "Make no mistake...
...Design-blind corp. hires Bob Lutz, Chrysler vision guy (Viper, PT Cruiser) to up cool quotient...