Word: benzes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incident occurred in a tunnel along the Seine River around midnight local time as the princess, 36, and her 42-year-old Egyptian boyfriend, Emad "Dodi" al-Fayed fled the photographers, who pursued on motorcycles. Their Mercedes Benz went out of control and was crushed in the ensuing accident. "The car had clearly done a lot of spinning and was facing in the opposite direction," said Scott MacLeod, of TIME's Paris Bureau...
...Harvard's estimate of what the price of attending the College will be in the '97-'98 school year, including tuition, fees and "personal money." It is also about three-fourths of the average family income in America, and about the price of one of the 275,757 Mercedes Benz sedans Harvard could buy with its endowment...
...could prove as important as the printing press. That would make Berners-Lee comparable to, well, Gutenberg, more or less. Yet so far, most of the wealth and fame emanating from the Web have gone to people other than him. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, drives a Mercedes-Benz and has graced the cover of several major magazines. Berners-Lee has graced the cover of none, and he drives a 13-year-old Volkswagen Rabbit. He has a smallish, barren office at M.I.T., where his nonprofit group, the World Wide Web Consortium, helps set technical standards...
...with the murder of comedian Bill Cosby's only son, who was shot on a dark stretch near a Los Angeles highway while trying to change a flat tire. Police say the killing was the result of a spontaneous and botched attempt to steal Cosby's $130,000 Mercedes-Benz. "It appears that robbery was the motive," L.A.P.D. chief Willie Williams said. "It was happenstance." Williams also said that after examining Cosby's tires, his department had rejected theories that the flat was set up as part of a conspiracy to stage a robbery...
More ominous yet is a transaction reported last December in the Houston Chronicle. Days after the Murray-O'Hairs disappeared, a real estate agent named Mark Sparrow, responding to a newspaper ad, paid a man he met at a bar $15,000 for a 1988 Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL. The car turned out to be Jon Murray's, but the man, who identified himself as Murray, turned out to be an impostor. Sparrow told TIME that after the transaction, the bogus Jon got into a car driven by a couple that fits the general description of the real...