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...MOVE DESIGNED TO CUT COSTS AND BOOST PROduction, Mercedes-Benz is expected to announce this week a decision to build an auto plant on American soil. Daimler-Benz, the corporate parent, has been expanding its links with the U.S., recently signing a deal to become the first German company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. By selecting the U.S. for its assembly plant, the company is placing a huge vote of confidence in American manufacturing. It is also putting its fine-tuned reputation for quality engineering on the line. The factory will produce a new four-wheel...
...prompting observers to wonder, Was it the same one every day, or did he own many jackets that just looked the same? She favored severe blazers and blouses buttoned all the way up. Costumes aside, both tried to give the impression that the other was unfit to be a parent. In large measure, they both succeeded...
...same time, Tele- Communications, Inc. (TCI), the world's biggest cable-TV operator, will begin marketing a new cable decoder that can deliver as many as 540 channels; next week it will announce plans to provide this service to 100 cities within the first year. Time Warner (the parent company of this magazine) is up and running with a 150-channel system in Queens, New York, and early next year will launch an interactive service that will provide video and information on demand to 4,000 subscribers in Orlando, Florida...
...example, Finnegan, 40, offers her intuition throughout her life that she would never have children. When she discovered her star chart had "Saturn moving backwards in the sky in the fifth House," which meant that she was extremely unlikely to become a parent, her belief in astrology was confirmed...
...imply that he sees NBC News' problems as primarily public relations and that he hopes installing an eminent journalist can diffuse them. But as acting president Browne acknowledges, many inside NBC -- plus one candidate from outside -- think the recent difficulties directly result from the staff cuts as NBC's parent company, General Electric, turned the news division from a $126 million money loser in 1988 to an anticipated $20 million profit earner this year. Browne says Wright has promised that "there will be more personnel," but to at least one candidate who declined, that commitment is not enough: "I would...