Word: mountaineers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Unable to force Piech to give in, Porsche seems to have just run out of time. Its gambit to acquire VW cost Porsche dearly as it piled up a $12 billion mountain of debt to finance stock purchases. With the sports carmaker beginning to struggle under the weight of that debt, Porsche and Piech met in Salzburg, Austria on Wednesday to end the feud. Following that meeting, Porsche issued a statement declaring that the two companies aimed to "develop a corresponding basis for decision-making on the future structure of the common group...
...Engleithner’s stories ranged from the harrowing—such as the time when he narrowly evaded what would have been a lethal injection of air into his heart after being taken to the camp infirmary—to the fortunate—such as when a mountain guide stalled the Nazis, who were about to find his getaway home in the Alps. The Center for European Studies sponsored the event in collaboration with Martin M. Wallner ’11, a native of Austria who spent two years in the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service before coming...
...like Coke and Pepsi," he said. "It's kind of like Coke and Mountain...
...Google is our generation's equivalent of Coca-Cola, then Wolfram Alpha might just be our Mountain...
...immediate aftermath of his nomination, the search was on for clues to the "real" David Souter. And everyone came up with the same opaque portrait: he was a solitary man, given to serious reading - Shakespeare, Dickens, Proust - and mountain trail hiking. Since the age of 11 he had lived in the same rundown farmhouse near Concord, N.H. Still unmarried at age 50, there was no evidence he was gay - something plenty of people on both sides of the divide investigated as soon as he was nominated...