Word: thunderbird
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Even as Chrysler hurries to increase supply, another entry in the nostalgia sweepstakes is on the way. Next summer an incarnation of the classic 1955 Ford Thunderbird will appear. The Thunderbird (so named by a young Ford stylist who was rewarded with a $95 bonus and a pair of trousers from Saks Fifth Avenue) started out as a snazzy two-seater weighing 3,000 lbs. and costing $2,695. It eventually evolved into a giant sedan weighing more than 5,000 lbs. that was finally discontinued in 1997. The new model, slimmed down to roadster size and fitted with familiar...
...country is turning to outside help, like the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, which was funded by the city's municipal government and the European Union. Another program is the Center for Business Skills Development, established in Shanghai two years ago in affiliation with Arizona's Thunderbird American Graduate School of International Management. Despite steep fees--about $10,000 annually, more than three times what a Chinese program costs--and an English-language curriculum, such programs are raking in applicants. Some multinational firms are doling out thousands of dollars in tuition scholarships...
...rush of cranky customers began around Christmas. Just as hordes of frazzled parents were descending on shopping malls, crowds of feverish, aching bodies were flooding the emergency department at Thunderbird Samaritan Medical Center outside Phoenix, Ariz., desperate for relief from this winter's nasty, widespread strain of flu. On many days, a couple of hundred patients, from wheezing senior citizens to crying babies in their weary mothers' arms, clogged the waiting room, sitting for up to six hours to see a doctor. It didn't take long for the 35 beds in Thunderbird's ED, and many on its other...
...nowhere else to go. But many others were a relatively new breed: refugees from managed care--which managed not to be available to them. "More people seem to be told, 'We can't see you until next week,'" says Dr. Kathryn Perkins, who has watched annual patient volume at Thunderbird's ED nearly double in the past five years. "When nobody will see them, they come here...