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Gleaming new Chryslers and Mitsubishis fill the remodeled showroom of Bader al-Mulla and Bros. But upstairs the executive offices are still a charred shambles, torched by fleeing Iraqi troops 11 months ago. Anwar al-Mulla, on holiday in Europe when Iraq invaded Kuwait, returned at war's end to join his brothers in the monumental rebuilding task. Iraqis had seized 3,500 al-Mulla automobiles; the company's losses from fire and theft totaled $230 million. Al-Mulla's house, which served as the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's occupation overseer, was also devastated. His sole consolation: "They left...
...part of an ongoing project by a Massachusetts women's group, the Lyman Common Room yesterday became a showroom for t-shirts designed by victims of violence against women...
...attraction. There is a collective sense that to design for Americans requires understanding them viscerally, and a belief that Los Angeles is not just the wellspring of car culture but as close to Ur-America as any one place gets. More prosaically, Southern California represents the biggest automobile showroom anywhere: every year 3% of all new cars on the planet are registered in California, and most of those in Southern California. If you're to succeed in the U.S., you must sell in Southern California. And to do that, observes Peter Fischer, a marketing vice president at Volkswagen, "you have...
...shortcomings ranging from mileage to quality control. "It's probably giving the boys in Detroit a few sleepless nights," said Joseph Phillippi, an automotive-industry analyst at Shearson Lehman Bros. in New York City. "The Big Three say that they have similar technology, but Japan puts it in the showroom." The Japanese now command roughly 25% of the U.S. auto market, a 5% gain in three years...
When Johnny comes marching home, will the rest of us celebrate by tramping off to the mall or auto showroom? Business-people and investors across America are pondering that question, trying to balance widespread forecasts of at least one more recessionary quarter against the euphoria of a swift battlefield victory. Does peace mean prosperity? If the gulf war didn't start this recession, what role will Kuwait's liberation play in ending...