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...half-hour later Dan and Alisha and their new DVDs are compressed into a Volkswagen Santana taxi, bound for the condo that the Sharks have leased for them in a complex of rococo pink high-rises that look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa dipped in grenadine syrup. "You!" Dan commands, using Mandarin for "turn right." Then, after passing through the gates, he says, "Ting!" which means "halt." The driver lets them out in front of a fountain topped by a plaster nymph with breasts the size of cantaloupes...
...power of all that is Italian, says Maurizio Dallocchio, dean of the business management school at Milan's Bocconi University: "He never gave up on that vision of creating a strong, independent Italian industry with an international perspective. He made Italy famous in the world." By 1968 Fiat overtook Volkswagen as the largest carmaker outside the U.S., with 157,000 employees turning out 1.75 million cars a year. Fiat continued to expand through much of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by labor unrest and terrorism. That's one reason Agnelli transferred manufacturing abroad to places like the Soviet...
...against adopting the higher pension and health-insurance contributions as well as Schröder's much-maligned proposal to reform the labor market by turning unemployment offices into temporary job agencies. The labor reforms were suggested by an independent commission headed by Peter Hartz, the personnel chief at Volkswagen. But even Hartz has complained that his recommendations have been so watered down because of pressure from labor unions that they weren't likely to succeed. Following the defeat in the Bundesrat, the legislation was sent to a mediation committee where it was approved unchanged. It will be voted...
This month Demel takes over as head of Magna Steyr (2001 sales: $1.5 billion), the Graz-based subsidiary of Canada's car-parts giant Magna International. His return to Austria--after 12 years in Germany and Brazil with Volkswagen--comes at a critical time for Magna Steyr, whose parent company hopes to spin it off next year. But Demel's move could be a watershed for the auto industry. As major carmakers sell more specialty cars, such as convertibles and four-wheel-drives, they are contracting out more of their manufacturing--even design and assembly--to suppliers like Magna Steyr...
When the Jetta was redesigned, Volkswagen became more luxurious and more expensive, Shonkoff said...