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...where German speakers are desperate for a dose of Deutsch. - By William Boston End Of The Road General Motors agreed to pay Fiat €1.55 billion to terminate a "put" option that could have forced GM to acquire the Italian firm's debt-laden auto division. The companies also unwound some of the their joint-venture agreements. Four days later, Fiat ousted Herbert Demel, its car unit...
Moscow's millions knew something was afoot even as they dressed for work one morning last week. The radio was droning out the full text of a long government communiqué ... Slowly, as the high-charge prose unwound, the reason for all the excitement began to dawn on the Muscovites: the Kremlin had decided to start testing its nuclear weapons again. Just 49 hours later, a brilliant flash lit the bleak plains of Central Asia, and a mighty bang echoed for miles ... The risk of atomic war still depends, as it has for years, on the simple decision...
...said Richard J. Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Parker and his 12-year-old son Sam had just returned from canvassing in New Hampshire, where they braved rain and cold to bring out the vote. Parker dropped Sam off at home, where he unwound by watching some Harry Potter. Dad then scrambled to beat the clock. He succeeded—his ballot was the last one dropped into the official black...
...check the condition of a film, the print is unwound across a “rewind bench...
...course, the hand is not yet won. The two companies must complete a 30-day negotiation phase, and the deal is not likely to close until early 2004. Media mogul Barry Diller's complicated minority ownership rights in Vivendi must be unwound, the theme parks sorted out and management posts secured. Only then can imagination get to work...