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Good to Great to Gone

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In 2009, Circuit City went bankrupt after an amazing 60 year run. And then of course 2001-2009 - Gone (as is often the case, it took a long time to be gone). One of the special things about this book is Alan Wurtzel was actually CEO for 13 years until 1986. The book is probably worth reading just for that list.

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Toyota Under Fire

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On August 28, 2009, in San Diego, California a family driving their Lexus was killed when their loaner vehicle accelerated out of control at more than 100 mph. What exacerbated the story was that the driver, Mark Saylor was a veteran California Highway Patrol officer.

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