Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faded just as fast as it had bloomed. When he died at 81 last week following a stroke in West Germany, he had virtually no influence among students and his once much discussed books-Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man-were little read. Noted a member of his West German publishing house: "He died bitter, disillusioned with mankind but still an idealist...
...Volkswagen's sprawling headquarters in Wolfsburg, Chairman Toni Schmücker and his top aides are pondering a major question: Should the West German automaker build a second plant in the U.S.? A final decision is expected by year's end, and the early signs point toward a definite ja. A team of Volkswagen experts is already studying possible sites; the new plant would be an assembly operation that would put together the popular, front-wheel drive Rabbits and would probably be on the West Coast...
Financially, it is more attractive to build cars in the U.S. than to import them from West Germany; because of the high wages and constantly climbing value of the German mark relative to the dollar, the total hourly labor costs amount to about $13.60 in Germany, vs. only $9 at the Pennsylvania factory...
...build an engine plant in Mexico and to increase production at the Pennsylvania plant from the present 800 autos per day to 1,040 by 1981 . Schmücker's strategy is eventually to make the North American operation 90% self-sufficient, with only transmissions supplied from German plants...
...STYLE IS well adapted to depicting what is, after all, the almost unbelievable pain inflicted on a community, and a boy, under German occupation. By writing of the war from an individual's point-of-view, Haviaras makes its terror more tangible. Devastation is incomprehensible on a large scale; to have emotional impact, it must be brought down to the level of one person. And because he writes of a place where the identity of the individual is bound up in that of the community, by writing of the individual's anguish he also conveys the anguish of the community...