Word: bmw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radio Stolen: Blauplunkt AM-FM cassette deck and amplifies was reported taken from a silver BMW in the Peabody Terrace garage between Feb.1 and 2, police reported this week...
...high food prices and 50% inflation and angry over the ostentatious luxury enjoyed by many of the country's leaders, though not by Shagari. Said a Nigerian economist: "Palm oil is more than ten times as costly as it was a few months ago. Yet you see more BMW and Mercedes cars in Nigeria than you do in West Germany...
Hawkins began his own businesses, among them a motorcycle escort service for weddings and funerals, and several mortuaries. Today the Hawkins family runs a loose conglomeration of 18 firms that includes nursing homes and construction companies and a 35-acre farm. Family members drive a BMW, Lincoln Continental, Mercedes and Rolls-Royce, and live in such affluent suburbs as Sherman Oaks, Altadena and Palos Verdes Estates. But Hawkins continues to inhabit the tidy three-bedroom home, American flag fluttering over the garage, that long ago replaced the wooden shack. Dressed in shirt and tie and black cowboy boots, he works...
...privileged few tourists a chance to stay in stately homes with their titled occupants. For $90 a night, the venerable Lady Heald of Chilworth Manor, a converted 11th century monastery, will entertain and dine with a couple. Car buffs can arrange visits to the Mercedes, Lamborghini, Ferrari and BMW factories and the antique-car museums of Europe. The cost for that is about $2,900 for two weeks (airfare included), but the participant can save $4,000 by buying a Mercedes overseas and bringing it back to the U.S. The demand for deluxe travel is as lusty as ever. Says...
Agca's unexpected comments came as he was being questioned by police in connection with a peculiar kidnaping case. Emanuela Orlandi, 15, the daughter of a messenger in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, vanished on June 22 after talking with a man in a black BMW on the street in front of her music school in downtown Rome. Last Wednesday, following an appeal from the Pope for her safe return, the abductors finally unveiled their startling demand. In a call to Orlandi's family, the kidnapers announced that the girl would be freed only if Agca were...