"The minivans are effectively the new full-size station wagons in the 1980s and the 1990s," said auto analyst Jeannette Garretty of Bank of America in San Francisco.
"Our whole school could be called `at risk,"' said Jeannette Bennett, principal of Parkin Elementary.
Simmons disclosed that his daughter worked for Mellon Bank, a creditor of Jeannette Corp.
Some of the sweetness nearly got out of hand in this show _ with the sequined, pink or blue taffeta-ruffled, lace-edged wraparound dresses _ as the loudspeaker warbled "May Time," by Jeannette MacDonald.
"This period last year was very weak for GM," agreed analyst Jeannette Garretty of the Bank of America in San Francisco. "And this time was when people were making a lot of hay about Ford taking market share (from GM).