Word: bmw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cienega for Caltrans, the state transportation agency. Before her, a small army of gawkers takes in the freeway as if it were a huge, ugly sculpture -- Monument to Human Vanity by Mother Nature. Ellis could probably have taken the day off; both her Van Nuys apartment and new BMW convertible were demolished this morning. But she is actually cheery, meditating on Martin Luther King Jr.: "Just think of all the damage that could have been done if it wasn't his birthday and people were going about their business as usual. He made this a better place. He saved souls...
...seems so haphazard," said Richard B. Osterberg '96, whose BMW was recently towed to a lot in Somerville. "They don't follow through on the tickets and the next thing you know your car is gone...
...expressed during the council evolved out of wartime experience. Though drafted into a paramilitary corps, the teenage Joseph saw no combat because of a badly infected finger. He never learned to fire a gun, and his weapons were never loaded -- even when he performed guard duty in a BMW plant. But there he saw laborers conscripted from a branch of the Dachau concentration camp. He also remembers seeing Hungarian Jews being shipped to their death. "The abyss of Hitlerism could not be overlooked," he said. The depredations of the officially atheistic regime led to his conviction that religion was crucial...
Among the newly redesigned imports on display were the Honda Accord, Acura Integra and Toyota Celica. For aspiring yuppies, BMW introduced a convertible version of the newly redesigned 325i...
...Newman refused to make an alliance with one of the big-time boxing promoters like Don King or Bob Arum, he had to pay expenses for Bowe's fights out of his own pocket. By the time the Holyfield fight came around, Newman had exhausted his savings, sold his BMW and borrowed from friends to invest more than $300,000 in his fighter. Those days of debt are gone. This month, construction will begin on the $6.6 million house Bowe is building in Fort Washington, Maryland, where he moved 2 1/2 years ago. The ( 32,000-sq.-ft. mansion includes...