Word: benzes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move into the Washington market. Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, all have opened one or more outlets in or near the capital; all have done well enough to tempt established stores such as Hecht's and Woodward & Lothrop to retreat from their old bargain-counter ways. Mercedes-Benz thinks well enough of the area to service it with five agencies...
Henry Ford couldn't possibly have imagined that men would want to drive automobiles as fast as possible around a course when he tinkered with horseless carriages before the turn of the century. When Daimler and Benz, those great German mechanics, put together their first cars in the 1880s, they certainly didn't have motor racing in mind. Yet since the early days of automobiles, there have been the ordinary passenger cars and, in a class by themselves--the cars designed for racing. Perhaps it is a manifestation of human curiosity and a love of danger, or maybe just...
...ruined. And I can't have a relationship with another woman without security men." A Bavarian tycoon grumbled that the elaborate alarm system hastily installed in his house is forever going off, "sending the two resident guards running into nowhere with their pistols." After the Schleyer kidnaping, Daimler-Benz received 138 orders for bulletproof Mercedes-Benz limousines...
...travel with bodyguards, as an increasing number of German businessmen have been doing. Not only had police found the initials H.M. (possibly standing for Schleyer's first names) on papers in the possession of terrorists, but the industrialist was also a natural target. A director of Daimler-Benz, Schleyer also heads both the Federation of German Industries and the Confederation of German Employers-the country's two most powerful business associations. He has often appeared on television as a spokesman for Big Business on policy issues and labor disputes...
...hydrocarbons and less carbon monoxide than gasoline exhaust. Finally, there is the matter of price: though quotations have not been firmly fixed, GM expects its diesel cars to sell for $750 to $840 more than an Olds powered by a conventional engine. Is there, nonetheless, a market? Probably. Mercedes-Benz introduced passenger diesels to the U.S. in 1952, and in the past few years, demand has grown dramatically. Today nearly 50% of all Mercedes sold in the U.S. come equipped with diesel engines...