Word: bmw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week the stoppages engulfed 69,000 more of the country's 680,000 auto workers. Sympathy strikes could touch banking, public transport, textiles, insurance companies and the postal service. Audi, the luxury-car unit of Volkswagen, could be forced to shut down in two cities this week. BMW, the Bavaria-based car and motorcycle maker, has already closed two plants. Porsche and Mercedes-Benz might also curtail production...
David managed to get admitted to Harvard in 1974, but he dropped out of college two years later. He completed a term at Harvard last fall, but took the spring term off to take stock of his life. One night in 1979, he went to Harlem in his BMW, presumably to buy drugs. He was mugged in the lobby of a sleazy hotel...
Other questionable shelters abound. Precious jewels can be donated to charity and then two or three times their presumed value deducted from the donor's income. Luxury cars can be bought ostensibly for business purposes and provide large tax savings. BMW once advertised itself as "the car that shelters you from boredom as well as taxes...
...AM/FM cassette radio valued at $538 was reported taken from a BMW car in the I.A.B lot between 2 and 5:20 p.m. Friday The victim told police someone had damaged the left rear window and doorframe...
Most of the evidence against the Prime Minister and Cabinet is circumstantial and difficult to prove. So far, the only documented charge is that Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Local Government George Smith accepted a $26,000 BMW sedan from a professed drug smuggler. But even in the absence of further proof, the commission's revelations have generated public resentment against Pindling's self-assured, 17-year rule...