Word: german
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...evening at home with a dvd rented from the online, pay-as-you-go easyCinema service. Price? Just $3.50. The picture? Easy Rider. The next morning, nine passengers shuttled up the motorway to Luton airport inside a bright orange bus with a cracked windscreen and grinding brakes. A German and a Canadian seated to my right griped about paying $10 after missing the easyBus Holy Grail - the $2 starting price. Having paid $7.50, I kept quiet. "It changes your habits," says Nicolas Legrand, a 25-year-old mechanical engineer from Nice, aboard our Boeing 737-700 easyJet flight from Luton...
...locusts that fall on companies, stripping them bare before moving on." The inspiration for this alarming imagery was identified last week when his headquarters leaked a "locust list" naming the alleged pests. These included U.S.-based investment firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone as well as several German funds, all of which have bought up and restructured German companies in the past two years. In the past the SPD has tried to court the business vote by partially deregulating the labor market and cutting corporate income tax. Alienating the business community is a risky strategy, but analysts...
EADS will not be as welcome. The decision by the company to make a significant move into the U.S. comes at a sensitive time. The U.S. is still smarting over French and German opposition to the war in Iraq, and Washington is angry about the European Union's intention to lift an embargo on arms sales to China. (EADS is controlled 30% by Germany's DaimlerChrysler, 30% by SOGEADE--half owned by the French government--and 5% by the Spanish state holding company; 35% is publicly traded.) EADS is also the parent of Airbus, the jetmaker that has been squabbling...
...Hanfstaengl in Harvard Yard, did not merely express “concerns” over Jews’ treatment, as Grynbaum alleges, but, as the press at the time noted, “trembl[ed] violently,” demanded to know whether Hanfstaengl’s remarks about German Jews’ situation meant “extermination.” Although the Nazis were savagely beating Jews in the streets and had expelled Jews from the professions and university faculties, Grynbaum suggests it was acceptable for Harvard to extend a warm welcome to a leading Nazi. Grynbaum fails...
...many, prefabricated accommodation is synonymous with holiday camps, and about as appealing as queuing for communal showers. Hoping to fix that is TomaHouse (tomahouse.com). The German firm's new Bale Classic villa incorporates Balinese design in one of the most stylish examples of DIY accommodation around. With an aluminum skeleton as its core, the Bale Classic can comfortably expand from a 4.7-m-by-4.7-m footprint up to 200 sq m. Smart electrical and plumbing solutions are provided, including solar panels for use in remote areas, and just three tools (wrench, allen wrench and screwdriver) are needed...