Word: volkswagen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal habits are less regal. He can often be seen tooling around Cambridge in a repainted Volkswagen Beatle--a gift of his mother--and picking up trash as he walks through the Yard. The first President not to reside in the official president's house at 17 Quincy Street, Bok lives instead off campus at Elmwood, formerly the residence of the dean of the Faculty. And while some of his administrators are taking breakfast at the Faculty Club, Bok prefers a hale early morning coffee at the Wursthaus in the Square. "They all know him there," says Rosovsky...
...Volkswagen executives had been feeling justifiably proud that their Golf model has become the best-selling car in Europe. Last week the corporate backslapping suddenly stopped. The West German firm announced that it had been the victim of a swindle that would cost it nearly $260 million. Though VW provided no details, financial analysts believe the money was fraudulently lost by traders who were involved in the company's continuous exchanges of dollars and other currencies for deutsche marks...
...Volkswagen Rabbit, was sitting on three tires with the fourth suspended in the air above the hole, he said...
...below. The furniture was cheap ($37 for a chair) and chic. But Gehry decided he could not stomach becoming known as a designer of ubiquitous designer furniture. Less than three months after it was introduced, he withdrew Easy Edges from the market. "I was trying to make the Volkswagen," he says today. "I did, and it worked, and I got carried into a vortex, and I quit...
...shuttle bus stop for Cabot residents, so that they wouldn't have to walk all the way to Currier House to catch the bus. Have you ever tried to get on the shuttle bus in the morning after it has left Currier? Getting an elephant into a Volkswagen would be easier...