Word: productive
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Chrysler's woes are extensive. After owning the minivan market and a good chunk of the ever popular sport-utility business for a decade, the automaker has watched its market share get sucked away in the past year by competition. Instead of offering fresh new product, Chrysler rolled out an "all new" minivan that looks a lot like the old one, with expensive frills like power doors. Overproduction has forced the company to offer incentives of up to $4,000, tempting a loss on every sale. Chrysler even bungled its hottest product. There wasn't enough production capacity to meet...
Sales began declining in April. As the year wore on and Stuttgart put increasing pressure on Chrysler to deliver more savings, the decision-making process in Auburn Hills began to falter. Product programs, critical to Chrysler's past success, were held up. Per-vehicle costs began to rise, in some cases as much...
...parts. One and one make three. A late 19th century engineer, Wilhelm Maybach, working for Daimler, puts together the newly invented perfume spray with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact that it will liquefy rubber. So he spreads the rubber between layers of cloth and invents the raincoat...
...define an invention as something new, created by human ingenuity. It is not a discovery of a natural phenomenon that already exists. It is not merely a product of convergence, technology's latest buzz word used to describe the combining of existing technologies. Yet as our first two choices illustrate, the art of making two or more technologies work together often requires a new invention--even if it is just a complex line of computer code...
...showing the four starring women sitting around the kitchen table, nursing their neuroses and trying to set their family right. During this time, Mary Ann outs Elizabeth as a lesbian, Nora tries to reform Mary Ann with elaborate guilt trips about motherhood and Elizabeth frantically searches for any household product that can give her a quick high. The current of hostility running between the three sisters is sharp and well done. Less convincing are the few sentimental moments, as the chemistry between Gail (Alex Cooley '02) and Elizabeth (Jessica Shapiro '01) seems to be lacking. Eva Furrow '03 plays...