Word: bernhard
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...Wolfgang Bernhard says he "wanted to learn the business hands on, rather than be a remote-control, distant manager." So when he was sent by Daimler-Chrysler executives in Germany to help steer their struggling Chrysler unit in Detroit, Bernhard worked three days a month on the company's factory floor. Bernhard's innovations paid off: the company was the only U.S. carmaker to pick up market share this year. But when Bernhard opposed giving the troubled Mitsubishi unit an injection of $2 billion, he found himself without a job. Volkswagen quickly offered Bernhard a high-powered encore: as chairman...
...effect, the Balmain-raised Byrne has been in training since the age of 8, when she joined the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney. There she was talent-spotted by the producers of Dallas Doll, her feature film debut opposite American comedienne Sandra Bernhard in 1994. Five years later, with blond streaks and a bikini, her career was launched as Heath Ledger's love interest in Gregor Jordan's King's Cross crime caper Two Hands. Another five years on, she's the first to admit that Troy "is not much to do with the women...
...solution, says engineer Bob Bernhard, co-director of Purdue University's Institute for Safe, Quiet and Durable Highways, is to change not the tires but the road surface. "You can make the pavement porous," he says, "which affects the air-pumping mechanism. You can also mix a little rubber in with the asphalt, which changes the road's stiffness." Porous surfaces are already being rolled out in parts of Georgia, Florida and Arizona, as well as in Europe...
Nathan G. Bernhard ’07, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Weld Hall...
...exhibit. She is nevertheless disappointed in the show. "Everything started to change," she says. "This exhibit is very defensive, and it excludes what was happening between 1980 and 1989." The show's most distinctive body of work was produced by the Leipzig School, a group of painters led by Bernhard Heisig, Werner Tübke and Mattheuer - artists who walked a tightrope between conformism and independence, and displayed visible links to past masters. Heisig's Beharrlichkeit des Vergessens (Persistence of Forgetting), which deals with German militarism, contains a section from an Otto Dix painting, creating a lineage that transcended...