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Schrempp and Eaton boast of major cost-cutting opportunities. For example, the two companies combined spend $7 billion on R. and D. every year. Much of the money that goes into research on, say, safety or fuel-cell technology can be put under one umbrella for savings. Economies can also be extracted from joint purchases of raw materials. "Daimler and Chrysler will maximize the number of common parts they're using for their cars," says Christian Breitsprecher, a Dusseldorf-based industry analyst. "Engines, engine control systems, transmissions, door locks, seats--you name it." As Eaton insisted to TIME, "There...
Radcliffe, while it cannot boast of a first-place finish this weekend, also turned in an impressive performance at its regatta...
...country firmly on the international travel map. Newly plunged into global markets, the Cape wine industry has expanded its traditional, highly regulated, conservative marketing base and drawn in Germans, French, Swiss, Italians. Russians and Californians as investors in South African grapes. Some of the leading Cape estates now boast European winemakers; Zelma Long and Phil Freese, well known in Sonoma, Calif., are in a joint vineyard venture with Michael Back, owner of Backsberg, a top South African estate. At least one prestigious California wine company is hoping to buy a Paarl farm. A score or so of local wine farmers...
...easy to finally enter the Info Center feeling no wiser and certainly no prouder of this University as a result of the interactive tour. The interior doesn't help. Decked out in red-brick and Harvard chairs, the center boasts a cubicle fondly described as a "reading room," a projection screen and computer kiosk of sorts. The reading room material is mostly about the history of Harvard and its sidekick, Radcliffe the Girl Wonder. The movies boast such gripping titles as "Harvard: A Video Portrait" and "Harvard: An International Community...
Other than Abeles, the Crimson offense has been less than stellar. Only Franzese (.321) and freshman Mairead McKendry (.300) boast .300 or better averages at the plate. And Abeles's 27 RBI on the season are 17 more than the next best Harvard player...