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...allows people to fence, do backflips and play football in the same room at the same time? Did Bonnie Tyler run into the mirror to be dramatic or because she didn't know it was there? Which shirtless man/ninja/Fonzie clone/possessed choirboy is this song about? Did Bonnie Tyler not find love because her hair was so bad or because she hung out with scantily clad male dance troupes? What am I watching...
...selling cars to the budget-minded. But last year, as U.S. auto sales plunged, incentives such as rebates and fancy financing schemes weren't moving wheels off the lots as they usually did. John Krafcik, chief executive of the American subsidiary of the South Korean carmaker, polled consumers to find out why. The answer: fear. "The root cause was not that the deals weren't good," Krafcik says. "So many of them said, 'I'm afraid of losing...
...chain, which sold nearly 50% of the 10.6 million pairs of spectacles purchased in the country last year, promises to match the lowest prices available. A well-known Fielmann TV ad, in classic noir style, shows a busty blonde sauntering into the office of a hard-boiled private eye. "Find an optician cheaper than Fielmann," she implores. "Forget it," the sleuth responds...
...also doesn't take a detective to find Fielmann shops, which number 536 in Germany - and counting. The Hamburg-based company sees the downturn as a chance to press home its dominance by expanding and squeezing out stumbling rivals. Fielmann, which also operates in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Poland, plans to open 150 new stores in Germany alone, as many as 30 of them this year. Georg Alexander Zeiss, Fielmann's head of finance, says that he is also considering acquisitions of smaller, weaker competitors. "We are looking at every serious opportunity," Zeiss says...
...Electric cars will require more powerful recharging stations than the standard wall outlets used to juice up bikes. But when four-wheeled technology becomes road-ready, it will find a willing customer base in China. "The Chinese have a hundred million people on electric bikes," says Jamerson. "That means a hundred million potential customers" for electric cars. When he worked at GM, which filed for bankruptcy on June 1, Jamerson said he once suggested the company give away an electric bike with every new car, just to get customers used to the idea of a means of transportation you plug...