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Word: bmws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both of which are largely free in Europe. The net result is that many Europeans end up with somewhat fatter disposable incomes than Americans but they also face generally much higher prices. So how do they do it? How do they afford the rows of doubled-parked Mercedes and BMWs and the expensive smart clothes that are so conspicuous to visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How They Live So Well in Europe | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...buyers are individualists," continues Baumgarten, "the architects, advertising people and journalists." One reason for the rising demand is the immediate delivery offered on most American cars, unlike the long waits for Audis, BMWs and Mercedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Love Affair in Germany | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Modeling themselves on Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas, Bonnie und Clyde set about fighting society by assembling an arsenal of guns, robbing banks and stealing fast cars (they preferred BMWs). According to Ruhland's testimony, the gang lacked neither ideas nor ambition. At one point, they planned to break into a Bundeswehr arms depot at Munsterlager; another time, they hoped to free captured members of their group either by staging a prison raid with a tiny homemade helicopter or by kidnaping Chancellor Willy Brandt and using him in a prisoner exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Bonnie und Clyde | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

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