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Amid the gruesome news generated by the world's auto industry these days, this bit of information almost reads like a typo: new car registrations in Germany rose 21% year on year in February, the country's Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) announced on March 3. This, though, was no error. The 278,000 cars put on the road, crowed VDA president Matthias Wissmann, amounted to the highest level of sales in the month of February in a decade...
...their jobs, a quarter of them would explicitly lie, and 4% would flirt with their boss for an advantage. It's not clear whether members of the younger generation are simply more forthcoming than their elders about bad behaviors, or whether they're just plain old bad. Probably a bit of both, says Kenny. "They are the newest in the professional world, so they are still learning the professional lessons of integrity and quality," she says. "Sometimes they can only be learned the hard way." (Read "Does Office Romance...
...known as the guy who did the dork dance," Buck says. Even then, with his mullet and Duran Duran jacket, people thought he was cool. "He's adorable. There's no two ways about it," says Hamm. For an adorable guy, though, Rudd has depth. "He has a bit of a postmodern Jimmy Stewart quality. He's an everyman who has a dark side that peeks out from the edges," says Donald De Line, a producer of I Love...
...excited about this idea in November and wouldn't budge. And we're all for parodies being a couple of months old, at most. We should have felt more lame and out of touch for not getting it, and instead we just felt a bit awkward...
...opening coincided with the beginning of the recession in late 2007, unfortunate timing that the tapas restaurant has been recovering from.“[Reservations] did go down definitely in the fall,” Picca said, adding that they have “picked up a little bit since the beginning of the year.”At Henrietta’s Table in the Charles Hotel, executive chef Peter W. Davis said that business is “a little bit slower,” but the drop has not been dramatic.On the other hand, Christopher T. Principe...