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...German arms merchant who illegally sold a giant drill to Iraq in 1999 has left a gaping hole in Germany's efforts to restrict the export of sensitive military-use technology. A Mannheim court last week sentenced Bernd Schompeter, 59, to five years and three months in jail after ruling that he had broken an export embargo with the drill, which can be used to manufacture cannon capable of firing chemical or nuclear weapons. It also handed a suspended sentence to Willi Heinz Ribbeck, 53, a sales manager at the machinery company that made the drill. The convictions embarrass Germany...
...received a letter telling me I was selected. My first reaction was that I was kind of annoyed that they were asking me to pay a $50 fee.” said Bernd H. J. Beber ’03, a government concentrator. “It’s supposed to be a good thing and then they ask you for money...
...just cost reductions. And from what I've seen there is a hell of a lot of room for that." Giancarlo Boschetti, Fiat Auto's new CEO, on turning around the struggling company "We had a little fight over some questions, for sure, but it was a nice fight." Bernd Leissner, Asia-Pacific Volkswagen president, on finding VW parts in cars made by a rival
Government concentrator Bernd H. Beber ’03 received $540 from the committee to research the success of the European Union’s Court of Human Rights...
...slated to move up to the company's supervisory board this April. He will be succeeded as CEO by Bernd Pischetsrieder, who joined VW in 2000 after being forced out of rival BMW in the wake of the company's calamitous investment in Rover. With his insider knowledge of BMW's successful effort to create a high-end image, Pischetsrieder is expected to concentrate on brand building at VW, while trying to get the company's costs down. Some shareholders hope that he will also show more attention to the stock price than Piëch did. His comments...