Word: benzes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Luxury cars, once a bargain during a tour of duty in West Germany, are now beyond the reach of all but high-ranking officers: the Army registered only 136 BMW owners this year, compared with 1,044 in 1985. The 2 1/2-year waiting period for a Mercedes-Benz has shrunk to six months. "Canceled orders used to be simply unheard of," says Gottfried Plangg, of the firm's NATO sales division. "But now everybody's nixing orders placed when the dollar was high...
...think that it's very positive that theydiscussed [divestment] for two hours," saidDorothee E. Benz '87, president of Alumni AgainstApartheid. "I'm glad to see they're not avoidingthe issue on the guise that it would becontroversial...
...capital, where huge houses sit behind electrified barbed-wire fences. These are the homes of the wealthy landowners and businessmen who pulled most of the strings of power before the military coup of 1979. They shop at U.S.-style malls on the Boulevard de Los Heroes, favor the Mercedes-Benz SL and try to overlook the rat's nest of tin and cardboard huts that besmirches their view of a nearby hillside...
...Pacot, a run-down but still chic neighborhood, is three miles and another world away from La Saline's slums. In a corner here and there, the brittle, corrupt surface of Papa Doc's Haiti still glitters. Guard dogs run along the tops of security walls, and chauffeured Mercedes Benz slip in and out of driveways leading to Gothic gingerbread houses...
...next day, as the Pope traveled to Miami's Tamiami Park to celebrate his first public Mass on the journey, thousands of well-wishers lined the highways, occasionally mobbing his Popemobile -- a white Mercedes-Benz 230G equipped with protective wraparound glass. The weather, however, was less forthcoming. A violent thunderstorm caused abandonment of the service due to the threat of lightning. (A day earlier, in San Antonio, where the Pope was scheduled to celebrate a Mass on Sunday, winds toppled two twelve-story towers behind his outdoor altar...