Word: auto
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...patchwork of sometimes widely divergent policies that tend to treat domestic operations differently from international ones for corporate tax purposes. For the past few years, the E.C.J. has consistently ruled against any tax treatment that differentiates between domestic and E.U.-based affairs. De Hosson, for example, represented a Dutch auto-parts company named Bosal Holding that in 2003 won a tax victory at the E.C.J., at that time against the Dutch government, which had refused to allow the firm to deduct interest and other costs incurred by its subsidiaries in other E.U. countries. The Dutch government estimated the decision would...
...invested more than $4 billion in Rover, but even the firm's smartest and most successful engineers and marketers failed to turn the company around. That, argues Peter Schmidt of Britain-based consultants Automotive Industry Data, is at least in part a sign of the innate fragility of auto brands. "Image is very, very significant in this business," Schmidt says. "Once your image is badly damaged, you can come up with the most wonderful car and people still won't buy it." The Daimler people are hoping that won't happen to them. The troubles at Daimler follow years...
...pretend-science of manipulating accounting, finance, employees, customers, and stock prices. Financial games and hostile takeovers of competitors are taught to accomplish corporations’ sole objective—to make money and manipulate stock prices. Such a mistaken view of corporations has caused the dismal decline of American auto manufacturers while Toyota and Honda widen their market shares and profits in America, pursuing their goals of expanding employment and technological innovations...
...Academy, where the Zeigers chose to settle, grass lawns and water-thirsty plants like oleander are forbidden, there are no streetlights on the roads, and half the land is preserved as open space for wildlife habitat. The houses are built in clusters of four sharing a single driveway and auto court and are designed to be inconspicuous: all exterior walls must mimic the brown and ocher tones of desert soil...
...French law was drafted in the wake of the controversial case of Vincent Humbert, who was left blind, paralyzed and mute after a 2000 auto accident. "France's general perception of what is going on in the Schiavo case is similar to the general mood with Humbert," says Cohen. "Most here have compassion for the patient, and are in favor of allowing death because they understand there is no point in living in this state." There is a difference, though. Vincent Humbert expressed a clear will to die. He dictated an acclaimed book, I Ask the Right...