Word: volkswagener
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...Nicholas-Applegate Worldwide Growth Portfolio, is finding dozens of stocks to her liking, especially among export-driven companies benefiting from weakening currencies. Her favorite countries are Germany, the Netherlands and France. Favorite stocks include the French oil company Elf Aquitaine, Dutch electronics-giant Philips and German carmaker Volkswagen...
...Plavsic was "a fairly honest fanatic," says an experienced Western official in Sarajevo. While Karadzic and his top aides grew rich off the war's black market, strutting about in expensive suits and driving flashy Mercedes, Plavsic stuck to matronly flower-print dresses and drove a green Volkswagen...
...sang on street corners to raise train fare to rejoin her mother, who had moved to San Diego. There Jewel worked in a string of dead-end jobs. When mother and daughter ran out of money, they moved from Carroll's tiny apartment and lived in Jewel's Volkswagen van. Her mother bought her own van, and the two often parked side by side. They used the lavatories at the local K Mart or at the Denny's by the intersection of Mission and Gabriel, where Jewel washed her hair at the sink and, with suds still on her head...
...wealth and fame emanating from the Web have gone to people other than him. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, drives a Mercedes-Benz and has graced the cover of several major magazines. Berners-Lee has graced the cover of none, and he drives a 13-year-old Volkswagen Rabbit. He has a smallish, barren office at M.I.T., where his nonprofit group, the World Wide Web Consortium, helps set technical standards for the Web, guarding its coherence against the potentially deranging forces of the market...
...Berners-Lee's Volkswagen poisoning his brain with carbon monoxide? He wonders about this by way of apologizing for the diffuseness of his answers. "I'm not good at sound bites," he observes. True, alas. But what he lacks in snappiness he makes up in peppiness. Spouting acronyms while standing at a blackboard, he approaches the energy level of Robin Williams. He is British (an Oxford physics major), but to watch only his hands as he talks, you'd guess Italian. Five, six years ago, during his "evangelizing" phase, this relentless enthusiasm was what pushed the Web beyond critical mass...