Word: ch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they kidding? Not a bit. Volkswagen has spent nearly $900 million developing the new car, which is called the Phaeton and will be officially unveiled at the Geneva motor show next month. The brainchild of VW CEO Ferdinand Piëch, the Phaeton represents the company's latest attempt to move the brand up-market away from commodity car-making and into the profit zone long dominated by Mercedes and BMW. But it's a huge gamble for a company whose very name means People's Car. "The question is, will a customer want to pay that amount of money...
Maybe, but it's the kind of risk that Piëch has relished since taking over as VW's top executive in 1993. Piëch has motor fuel in his blood as the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, who founded the legendary sports-car company. Under Piëch's command, VW has become Europe's biggest carmaker and fourth-largest in the world in terms of autos sold. He has expanded its car business by successfully integrating new brands such as SEAT and Skoda. And Piëch has added some boutique carmakers like Lamborghini and Bugatti...
...Across from Byron's house is Château d'Ouchy, a restaurant serving one of the most popular local specialties: perch from the lake. Lightly sautéed in butter, the tender fillets are served with parsley potatoes and consumed with chilled white wine from terraced vineyards surrounding Lausanne. No true Lausannois would drink anything with a perch but a local white...
...Mercosur have blossomed into a behind-the-scenes tug-of-war over the summit agenda. There are major uncertainties about how the meeting chemistry will be affected by the interaction among newcomers like U.S. president George W. Bush, Mexican president Vicente Fox Quesada and the mercurial Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías - alongside such veterans as the durable Jean Chrétien of Canada and Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso...
...Lafer says a two-year speed-up would swamp domestic industries with a flood of low-priced goods before his country is ready. "We're joining the FTAA only if it's convenient for us," Lafer told TIME last week. Brazil gained support in that position from Venezuelan president Chávez, a strident critic of the U.S., who flew down to Brasília last month to say that moving the date forward "would be for us a process of disintegration." Then Chávez asked for Venezuela to become an associate member of Mercosur...