Word: benzes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather than joining the trend of businesses shifting the costs of the health care crisis onto their employees, who had no part in creating the crisis, the Harvard Club ought to take a stand that health care is a right. We can afford it. Dorothee E. Benz...
...rushing out increasingly pricey models, and foreign luxury-car makers are jumping in too. Just last week Chrysler confirmed plans for a large upscale sports vehicle that may sell for as much as $40,000 when the first one arrives by 1998. It will square off against a Mercedes-Benz model that the German company will build in Vance, Alabama, and plans to sell for as much as $60,000 when production begins in 1997. Not to be outdone, BMW roared into the market in February by paying $1.2 billion for an 80% stake in Britain's Rover, whose sports...
Make way for the Swatchmobile, a sassy two-seater that looks like a cross between a Volkswagen Beetle and a Rambler. In fact, it is the product of an odd corporate marriage sealed last week between Mercedes-Benz, the maker of luxury cars, and Nicolas Hayek, the man who put almost 150 million Swatches on wrists all over the world. So far, the two companies have worked on separate prototypes, which they plan to merge into a single model produced by a joint company (Hayek's stake is 49%, Mercedes' 51%) for the 1997 market...
Heidelberg researchers pointed out that the use of children's corpses ended in 1989 and that the tests had never been kept secret in the first place. One crash study was even published by a research group representing 40 German automakers including Daimler Benz, Volkswagen, Opel and Ford. University officials quickly added that while adult bodies were supplied by homeless people and organ donors, children's corpses were used only with the permission of families, who were fully informed of what the tests would entail...
...million Chinese have become dakuan, or dollar millionaires, and as much as 5% of the population is affluent by Chinese standards. In 1978 Li Xiaohua was a cook in a Beijing restaurant. Today he is a business tycoon who wears a diamond-studded Rolex watch and owns two Mercedes-Benz and a red Ferrari. Ten years ago, Chen Xiaohan was a steelworker in a mill near Beijing. Now he manages a state-owned import-export company and drives around in a Cadillac with a mobile phone. Wang Guoqing quit his job at the Bank of China in Xian three years...