Word: bernhard
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...Chinese offshore investment," he reasons. Could the good times catch on over at Volkswagen? Peter Hartz, head of personnel at the German carmaker, quit last week in connection with a bribery and sex scandal. Separately, the firm unveiled a cost-cutting plan aimed at restarting the firm. Said Wolfgang Bernhard, chairman of the Volkswagen Brand Group: "If we cannot survive here at Volkswagen, then industrial Europe is going to die." Hey, let's not be premature...
...that must have come from Friedrich's of Heidelberg, she prowls the underground for her erotic prey. Will she find her slim swain? And then crush him under the weight of a lonely woman's first obsession? Or does she have some darker fantasy to realize? Is she the Bernhard Goetz of love...
...nation with countless soccer fields, West Germans have just one public golf course. But they also have Bernhard Langer, 27, who last week became the first German ever to win the Masters Tournament. With brilliant iron shots and steadier putting than has been usual for him, Langer in the last nine holes came from four shots back to win by two. His final total: 282, six under par for the Augusta National course. The lone West German pro on the P.G.A. tour, Langer is the first of his countrymen to win even the German Open. His Masters victory, he hopes...
...from New York's ebullient Mayor Ed Koch: Yes, but don't worry. Koch, in making the surprise announcement, explained that on April 1 an anonymous letter writer had threatened to dump "substantial quantities" of poisonous plutonium into the city's water supply unless all charges were dropped against Bernhard Goetz, the subway vigilante who is awaiting trial for shooting four teenagers he alleges were threatening him on a Manhattan train last December. In late April, a sample from the city's water system contained levels of cancer-causing plutonium up to 200 times as high as normal but still...
...about my first feature film, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird. Lots of our friends on Sesame Street helped me in the picture, and Mr. Snuffleupagus deserves an Oscar nomination for his sniffly farewell scene. I'm sure the other stars like Chevy Chase, John Candy and Sandra Bernhard join me in that sentiment. I think that with those little suggestions I made, the script really works now. I just loved the idea of me moving off to suburbia and then running away so that everyone would come chasing after me. By the way, don't believe those rumors that...