Word: harald
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...replaced by the head of Audi, Martin Winterkorn, 59, a Piëch loyalist. VW's financial prospects have brightened in recent months, and investors and industry officials fretted that Pischetrieder's exit could jeopardize the restructuring. "We see it as negative for VW," reckoned Credit Suisse analyst Harald Hendrikse. At France's Peugeot Citroën, Europe's second largest carmaker, Christian Streiff was appointed to succeed Jean-Martin Folz, 59, after he failed to reverse slumping sales. Streiff, 52, who has a reputation as a tough cost cutter, recently resigned as head of Airbus after just three months...
...Hizballah deliberately provoked Israel's ferocious response to inspire and strengthen extremist groups and rogue nations. Why hasn't the world been more supportive of the Lebanese government in its efforts to strengthen that nation's administrative and military power? Harald Smedal Paradis, Norway...
...actual goals. Feroze Sidhwa Sugar Land, Texas, U.S. Hizballah deliberately provoked Israel's ferocious response to inspire and strengthen extremist groups and rogue nations. Why hasn't the world been more supportive of the Lebanese government in its efforts to strengthen that nation's administrative and military power? Harald Smedal Paradis, Norway It would be nice if once, just once, the world stood by Israel and supported its actions. This time the main criticism seems to be that Israel's reaction has not been proportional. What is proportional? Should Israel have kidnapped two Hizballah fighters in return? Would that have...
...HBS—firms follow up their presentations with open bars, cocktail receptions, and dinners where upper-level directors wine and dine in the hopes of attracting top talent to their firms. “It’s fun socializing,” says section E member Harald W. Klug. “But it’s also kind of work.” With more than 1,200 firms registered as recruiters on the HBS website, students face an endless series of company presentations, so they often feel the need to sacrifice class work in order...
After the war, political neutrality, social stability and cultural heritage helped spawn a popular aphorism: Austria's greatest postwar feat was to convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German. Says Vienna Psychiatrist Harald Leupold-Lwenthal: "Waldheim is not such a surprising case. He adjusted, as many did, and then forgot the truth...