Word: minivan
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...tour of British electronica acts Groove Armada and Faze Action). Every song on Moby's 18-track album Play has been licensed, popping up in ads for the last episode of Party of Five, movies like The Beach and commercials for Nissan's Altima sedan and Quest minivan. Donna Karan's DKNY label plans to use deejay John Digweed's song Heaven Scent to promote a fragrance with the same name...
...Mickey Mouse jingle is sounding again at station 121R on the Shanghai General Motors assembly line. The procession of semiassembled cars and minivans halts, and workers start frantically pulling off an exhaust pipe from a blue minivan. Dennis Dougherty, GM's man in charge of manufacturing, is watching the process apprehensively from 50 yds. away. Blue-uniformed Chinese engineers come running to help. But Dougherty doesn't move. Two minutes later, Mickey Mouse stops, the line starts moving again...and Dougherty's expression relaxes...
...work it has. In its first year of production last year SGM sold 20,000 Buick Century sedans--more than double the target--and declared a $75 million profit. In addition to the original model, the company has launched two new vehicles, including a minivan, which goes on sale this week, only five months after the plant geared up production for it. There have been plenty of problems and more than a few Mickey Mouse alarms along the way, but the auto plant has become a textbook example of how a joint venture in China can succeed--as well...
...there was no time to savor the moment. If ever the immigrants were in danger of being captured, this was the time, with the U.S. Border Patrol on the prowl. The Chinese were lucky that night. A minivan with darkened windows was waiting for them, with a Chinese driver. The snakeheads' far-flung networks had delivered. The driver drove them through the night to a large city, which Chen discovered was Houston, though he had only the vaguest idea of U.S. geography. All he had was the telephone number of a distant cousin in someplace called Flushing...
They found Dalrymple and Elian clinging to each other. "No, no no!" Elian screamed. They gave him to Betty Mills, an eight-year INS veteran who spoke to Elian in Spanish as she covered him with a blanket and raced out to a waiting white minivan. As the pepper spray wafted outside the house, bystanders could hear the agents shouting the code meaning that they had Elian in their possession: "Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!" Mills told Elian that it was O.K., that he was going to see his "papa" and take his first ever airplane ride--not, she kept promising...