Word: benzes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Griffith makes the sealant rubber that Daimler-Benz, Volvo, Mack Trucks and other truckmakers use around windshields and under hoods. Laney sees a domino effect: if U.S. companies can't ship their products to Asia, Brazil, Russia or other places in economic turmoil, they won't need trucks to get their products to port. That's why Laney is scaling back, even though orders for new trucks increased in 1998. "We're not spending money on new equipment," he says. And after two years in which Griffith built two new plants and invested some $3.5 million in new manufacturing capacity...
Customized classes area also set up for the executives of a particular company--the World Bank and Daimler-Benz are past clients. Tuition runs from $2,750 for one three-day program to $40,500 for the "Advanced Management program," all paid by the student's company. HBS takes in over $50 million in tuition annually...
...this pie-in-the-sky is Globalstar, based in San Jose, Calif. The company, which will build a rival constellation of 48 satellites 879 miles up, was founded by Loral Space and Communications and by Qualcomm, a leader in cellular technology. Its European partners include France Telecom, Daimler-Benz Aerospace and Britain's Vodafone Group. Globalstar's plan is much less expensive than that of Iridium, which has built intelligent satellites that route calls among themselves, sometimes halfway around the planet. That kind of smarts makes for a system that's more flexible but more expensive and time-consuming...
...request of Rees-Jones' French attorney, investigating Judge Herve Stephan ordered a technical report on the air bags last December. The resulting document is inconclusive but does not rule out this hypothesis. Sources close to Rees-Jones say his lawyers may be preparing a damage suit against Mercedes-Benz based on this possible malfunction...
...Princess Diana has done nothing else in the past year, it has kept a lot of lawyers very busy. The official crash investigation is far from over, and investigators will soon be hearing from the manager of the Paris Ritz. Trevor Rees-Jones is considering a suit against Mercedes-Benz over airbags that may have exploded too early. And fellow bodyguard Kes Wingfield is to take Mohammed Al-Fayed to an industrial tribunal next week, claiming he asked Wingfield to back up his views that Di and Dodi died at the hands of a conspiracy -- and forced him to quit...