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...Schwinn pedaled after profits in Hungary and the West last year when the Chicago-based company bought control of Csepel, Hungary's bicycle monopoly, for $1 million. Before Schwinn arrived, Csepel was producing a single bulky model. To get the venture up to speed, Schwinn doubled the average wage of Csepel employees, to about $210 a month, and demanded that they work full eight-hour shifts instead of leaving early to moonlight. Schwinn installed new painting and welding equipment and developed sporty new models. The company expects the improvements to pay off later this year when the joint venture starts...
...after she bought it. Rather than replace it with another new bike, she decided to buy a used bike instead. "If you have an old bike, very few people will want it so you're pretty safe," says Zomopoulos, who describes her current bike as an "ugly bright green Schwinn...
...Woodstock on PBS, Dewitt decided try again, twenty years after the fact. Unfortunately, his Harley was long gone to the junk yard and his motorcycle operator's permit had been revoked after an unfortunate accident with an errant toddler, so Dewitt had to settle for a Schwinn ten-speed for transportation. Undaunted, Dewitt forged ahead: if some of the old ambience was missing, at least he was working off his paunch...
...about the most beautiful place on the planet," says a new resident, Megatrends Author John Naisbitt. When Bicycle Fortune Heir Richard Schwinn moved in eight years ago, he recalls, "it was like paradise." But perhaps not for much longer. Laid-back little Telluride, Colo., remote hideout for a smattering of the trendy rich and uncrowded preserve of ski connoisseurs, seems about to be discovered. The hills are alive with the sound of condo construction; resort developers are poised on their bulldozers. And a big part of the reason is that the hippies who crash-landed there in the '70s have...
...Schwinn admits, there are still many positions open for liberal arts graduates in the Peace Corps, but there is no reason the Peace Corps should avoid recruiting skilled people. People with technical skills can be idealistic too--the only difference is they can do a bit more with their idealism. The Peace Corps is still for those who believe that living a rich life means more than being rich. Lee levenson...