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...Leiding, 59, a onetime repair-shop manager who became chairman of Volkswagenwerk three years ago. Though 5,500 Beetles had continued rolling off the assembly lines each day until last week's shutdown, Leiding has been gradually shifting some of Volkswagen's eggs out of the Beetle basket. Volkswagen's subsidiary, Audi NSU Auto Union AG, formed in 1969, now offers medium-priced and expensive (up to $5,360) sedans, most notably the Audi 80, called the Fox in the U.S. Sales of these cars are rising faster than anything else the company makes. Last August, Volkswagen...
...divided up among several specially-selected outside firms. The decision to keep about one-third of the portfolio with outside managers resulted from a combination of factors that Putnam considered. First, President Bok expressed a very strong preference for not keeping "all of the University's eggs in one basket." Second, Putnam and Bok wanted to ensure that the University maintained close contact and good public relations with the financial world. But most important, they both saw that outside firms could offer the new management company a great deal of help and advice and provide a yardstick for some indication...
...tenement appear, endless duplicates of shambling brick, cracked windows, and beaten roofs. Behind, the buildings of Manhattan's East Side stand fiercely on the edge of the island, presenting a glittering metallic wall. A few blocks away, a teenage girl with red-painted finger nails picks up a laundry basket in the greasy kitchen of her small home. She turns down the light of the hamburgers crackling on the stove and goes out onto the back porch, where blouses, pants, and underwear hang on a clothesline. She begins taking down the garments, putting the clothespins in her pocket, when...
...decked out in new red and blue seats and bedizened by half-hearted efforts at new banners. The green wall was still the green wall. Typically, Kenmore Square was thronged, Jersey Street was alive with peanut-pushers, and on Brookline Avenue the black nun who collects coins in a basket was back at her post...
Havlicek's seven points and a basket by Paul Silas in the last minute pulled the Celtics to a 71-71 tie at the end of a third period that saw 17 more turnovers by the two clubs...