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...Austrian army, was intensely driven. He qualified for an elite school in the city and managed to graduate from City College at 18. A civil engineer by training, he went into real estate and made his fortune. He has constructed about a dozen properties in Manhattan, among them several high-end buildings on the edge of Central Park, including the Fifth Avenue tower in which Eliot now lives with his wife and three daughters. Spitzer's mother Anne grew up in modest circumstances. She became an academic and teaches literature at Marymount Manhattan College in New York...
...consumer, getting this combination of performance and styling used to cost at least $50,000--often $100,000 or more for the likes of a high-end Porsche. Comparable vehicles now sell for less than $40,000, a pricing sweet spot that is expanding the market. Says Donald Kaufmann, 52, an insurance agent in Baton Rouge, La., who just bought the new Nissan: "I felt I was getting a lot of car for the dollar." Since Honda introduced its S2000 in 1999, sales of the $35,000 roadster have jumped nearly threefold. Mazda's Miata, introduced in 1989, is still...
Although Smith had not decided on a future career, her friends said she talked about working in high-end fashion or becoming a talk show host...
...surveyed had already decided to set up their production facilities abroad, while another 32% are "investigating" a transfer of their factories. Tens of thousands of production jobs have already migrated from Germany to Central European countries like the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, making everything from light bulbs to high-end Audi automobiles. Last month, for example, German auto-parts maker Bosch said it would eliminate 830 jobs at its factory in Hildesheim, Germany, and move production to a new plant in Miskolc, Hungary. The move will reduce the workforce at the German factory by almost half. Some executives...
...latest campaign is to cement the company's new upmarket image by getting Samsung products into more high-end distribution channels. He also wants to shorten the time it takes to get a product onto store shelves once Samsung has spotted a new consumer whim...