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Make way for the Swatchmobile, a sassy two-seater that looks like a cross between a Volkswagen Beetle and a Rambler. In fact, it is the product of an odd corporate marriage sealed last week between Mercedes-Benz, the maker of luxury cars, and Nicolas Hayek, the man who put almost 150 million Swatches on wrists all over the world. So far, the two companies have worked on separate prototypes, which they plan to merge into a single model produced by a joint company (Hayek's stake is 49%, Mercedes' 51%) for the 1997 market...
Heidelberg researchers pointed out that the use of children's corpses ended in 1989 and that the tests had never been kept secret in the first place. One crash study was even published by a research group representing 40 German automakers including Daimler Benz, Volkswagen, Opel and Ford. University officials quickly added that while adult bodies were supplied by homeless people and organ donors, children's corpses were used only with the permission of families, who were fully informed of what the tests would entail...
...million Chinese have become dakuan, or dollar millionaires, and as much as 5% of the population is affluent by Chinese standards. In 1978 Li Xiaohua was a cook in a Beijing restaurant. Today he is a business tycoon who wears a diamond-studded Rolex watch and owns two Mercedes-Benz and a red Ferrari. Ten years ago, Chen Xiaohan was a steelworker in a mill near Beijing. Now he manages a state-owned import-export company and drives around in a Cadillac with a mobile phone. Wang Guoqing quit his job at the Bank of China in Xian three years...
...troubled Daimler-Benz, which will carve 43,000 from its worldwide payroll over the next 14 months, 3,000 salaried employees agreed to mild concessions. They would accept Christmas bonuses at 60% of a month's wages, instead of 100%, and give up a cornucopia of fringe benefits such as reimbursement for a child's first Communion outfit. But getting real sacrifice is not so easy. To address the needs of an aging population, Kohl sought to finance long-term nursing care by dropping up to six days of the sick pay workers get. The idea provoked a minicrisis...
...ebony smoke. "My God!" Pattengill exhales, watching flames engulf a nearby luxury residence that had once boasted a killer view of the Pacific. Along the highway stand some of the Laguna Beach refugees. They have packed all the belongings they could salvage and are now stranded -- in their Mercedes-Benz and Cherokees...