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Schrempp, who will succeed Eaton as DaimlerChrysler's chairman after the first three years, might be the kind of Mercedes executive who can bridge that gap and make this marriage work. A former apprentice mechanic, he arrived in Stuttgart in 1987 and made--and later unmade--an ill-fated deal with Dutch aerospace firm Fokker. He also did a stint at a Daimler division in Cleveland, Ohio. When Daimler fell deep in the red in the mid-'90s, he embarked on a series of American-style cost-cutting programs that reduced the work force by some...
...were delighted," McGrath Lewis said. "We go through all this agony to choose people to admit, so we're always very pleased when we succeed in enrolling so high a number...
Once the laughter stops, members attempt to fit the table back together. After a few minutes they succeed, but the table appears wobbly and slightly tilted...
...Race. In a political culture that favors government by proposition over experienced leadership, and has strict fundraising rules that weaken candidates who can't drop 10 to 20 million dollars of their own money on their campaign, multimillionaire Democratic gubernatorial candidates Al Checchi and Jane Harman just might succeed in buying their way into the governor's seat...
...boundaries," explains Richard Rahn, president of Novecon Ltd., a technology consulting firm. "The cybermoney revolution makes some forms of tax evasion very easy." And these innovations even call into question the role of the Federal Reserve as arbiter of the nation's money supply. "The more such innovations succeed, the less the public has to rely on central banks as direct sources of exchange media," University of Georgia economics professor George Selgin has written, "This seems to me to be particularly obvious in the case of E-money...