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...Models. Volkswagen's comeback partly reflects a boom in auto sales in Germany, where registrations last year were only a hair short of the record 2.15 million of 1971. But to get back into the black, the company had to slash labor costs and wean itself away from the product that made it famous: the Beetle. As late as 1972, VW made 1.2 million Beetles worldwide, selling a third of them to the U.S. Since 1971, revaluation of the deutsche mark has lifted the Beetle's price to around $3,500, from about...
...many other students would like the Food Services to consider those kinds of meals. White concedes that he is not "100 per cent satisfied" with his diet and that it was not easy to "abandon 20 years of a certain way of eating." But, he adds, "You have to wean yourself away from the idea of a meat dish, a vegetable dish and a starch dish at every meal...
...risks and pitfalls of the business world. Cohen's face is fatter, his eyes puffier, his hair thinner, but underneath he is a 45-year-old Duddy, playing the same game. All the failures, the deadends, the shameful deeds accumulated over decades have done nothing to wean Cohen from a world where all behavior is governed by passions. "Listen, Duddy," he tells Kravitz through the steam sauna, "it's not all wine and honey in this world, but I've got a family and I take damned good care of them. My Bernie won't have to send his partner...
Smith notes that the 65 million metric tons of fish caught annually represent only one two-thousandth of the oceans' yearly fish production. One way to squeeze more out of the sea, he suggests, would be to wean people away from the 55 most popular species and get them to try some of the 30,000 to 40,000 underutilized varieties - an effort that might mean changing the names of such potential delicacies as the cancer crab and the rat-tailed flounder...
That is the least of Harvard administrators' worries. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III recently called in Bennett and another glass eater and attempted to wean them away from their strange habit. After all, slivers of glass can lodge in the intestinal tract, producing inflammation or obstruction...