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Letters.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
A cat will save Mercury
If customers are going to notice Mercury's revival, the division needs to do it with its signature nameplate, the Cougar. It should be based on the new Mustang, sharing the same powertrain but with independent rear suspension. By using Mustang mechanicals, the Cougar could also accept most of the 'Stang's aftermarket parts. And instead of going retro like the Mustang, use the styling cues of the sporty Mercury Messenger concept car and mix in traces of past Cougars.
Joe Livoli, via e-mail
Bean counter has his say
Regarding the Feb. 16 issue's "Euro-pains'' story and the letter by Don Lee: Both items referred to bean counters deciding the fate of proposed vehicles. It's time for me to stand up for us. As a bean counter by profession and car lover by birth, it's not bean counters who make these decisions. As consumers and investors, we all do. It's up to us to buy good products we crave (or at least say we do), and invest in those manufacturers that build what we like. In the end it's the investors and consumers' fault that bean counters have to pay so much attention to cost on these decisions.
Bean counters only do what we can to keep stockholders and related markets happy. And a lot of us are car crazy too, including Porsche Cars of North America retired president Fred Schwab.
If we all put our money where our mouth is, most dream cars would be built, with resulting economies of scale and more ...
- Become solutions focused or perish: according to Ian Ivey bean counters can be...
- Magazine article from: NZ Business Ivey, Ian April 1, 2005 700+ words
...have endured in recent years. The bean counters have cut costs, rationalised staff...s still a major problem that the bean counters have missed which, unfortunately...problem? The key problem is that the bean counters and senior management within the group...
- Revenge of the bean counters: now it's personal.
- Magazine article from: Financial Adviser February 28, 2008 700+ words
Byline: It's all change for pension liabilities Those bean counters are at it again. Not content with causing havoc a few years...investment strategies without further interference from the bean counters and their arbitrary rules - they have returned with a new...
- Future in Oil Business Belongs to Bean Counters, Says tidwell
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record L.D. Barney May 20, 1986 700+ words
The future belongs to the "bean counters," says Ardis Tidwell, vice president of Petroleum Acquisitions...what she calls the "prudent operator concept." "The "bean counters' are going to play a very important role for some time...
- Bean counters facing rough road. (The Week in Review).
- Magazine article from: Investment News Gabriel, Frederick P. Jr. January 21, 2002 700+ words
Thanks to the Enron Corp. fiasco, the nation's bean counters may find themselves at the center of a recount. Harvey Pitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Thursday...
- Bean counters won't hold back derivatives.
- Newspaper article from: Financial News February 8, 2004 700+ words
...the heart of the action. Derivatives business is booming and there is no obvious threat on the horizon - other than the bean counters at the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), who seem intent on pressing home their proposal for fair-value...
- Bean counters beware; Feds join lawsuit against KPMG, sending message about...
- Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Taylor, Mark December 11, 2000 700+ words
...lawsuit against healthcare accounting icon KPMG, the U.S. Justice Department last week sent a strong signal to industry bean counters that they may be held legally liable for the Medicare billing work they do for clients. "It's something that's in the...
- The Bean Counters.
- Magazine article from: Top Producer Taylor, Marcia Zarley April 26, 2005 700+ words
...estimators know that it's hard to snag a moving target. That's why expansion of South American soy production caught official bean counters offguard over the last decade and added uncertainty to the world's oilseed supplies. On average, USDA-as well as other...
- The bean counters: estimators refine South America's soybean...
- Magazine article from: Top Producer Taylor, Marcia Zarley November 1, 2002 700+ words
...estimators know that it's hard to snag a moving target. That's why expansion of South American soy production caught official bean counters offguard over the last decade and added uncertainty to the world's oilseed supplies. On average, USDA--as well as...
Source: HighBeam Research, Letters.(News)(Letter to the Editor)