Word: benzes
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...assistant whose eyes dart in confusion, not sure what to make of his boss’s impulsive streak. In unison, we agree. We’re whisked out and down the steps with the Jackson entourage. As we’re guided to a slick new silver Benz left idling by the church’s curb, we discover that Jesse shares our optimistic view of traffic police generosity...
Fears of some twisted, journalistically unethical quid pro quo fill our minds. We’re relieved to hear our mission: to watch the Benz. A simple enough task...
...months. One of 11 congressional investigations opened its hearings on Thursday with a tableau we might as well get used to: Enron's former outside auditor taking the Fifth Amendment. On Friday J. Clifford Baxter, 43, an executive who left Enron last May, was found dead in his Mercedes-Benz in the median of a divided highway in the fancy Houston suburb of Sugar Land--an apparent suicide. That same day, as if on cue, the White House acknowledged that Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove, had recommended that Enron hire a key G.O.P. consultant during the early days...
...That's one reason he never became CEO of Ford or Chrysler--and why in 1999, despite his crucial role there, he was eased out by chairman Robert Eaton, who seemed nervous about letting Lutz (fluent in German and Italian) get too friendly with the new owners from Daimler-Benz...
...much. "Price is the last refuge of the marketer. It's what you sell when you don't have anything else to differentiate you," says Howe. "If prices were all that we cared about, we'd all be driving Hyundais." As Jobs likes to point out, BMW and Mercedes-Benz occupy a similar niche in the automobile market, but no one dismisses them as niche players...