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This is another shading of the Chrysler/Daimler controversy. When those two got together a few years ago, it was termed a "merger," but Daimler has control, and now the Chrysler folk are rebelling at changes and imperatives from Daimler. A couple of months ago, NPR ran stories about how the initial transaction was sold to Chysler stockholders as a merger, and that the transaction wouldn't have occurred if it had been revealed as an acquisition.
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Re Daimler:
Somewhere back in the days when Britain stood alone in WWII the Nazi's bombed the village of Coventry damned near into oblivion ... a few days later workers at an auto plant there went in to work and turned out one car, all hand made, to thus thumb their noses at the Nazi louts.
I had thought the car company and workers were Daimler. Anyone confirm or correct? Or was the whole story just wartime propaganda?
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enthusiast
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I do not see a smile on my friend's face anymore these days. His wife works at Lucent (or maybe worked at Lucent, I am afraid to ask). Everyday he looks as if he has not slept a wink. With a huge mortgage and a car loan, with 2 small children in tow, there must be unease in the household.
OPTICS indeed!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/31/technology/31LUCE
is missing. They updated the article when LUCENT pulled out and it became 32LUCE. If you get "not found" it is often a good tactic to move back up the url to the previous / and try that. This resolved the problem in this case.
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The value of language continues to be graphically demonstrated: Standard & Poor has lowered the credit rating of Lucent Technologies to junk bond status yesterday…http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/13/technology/13LUCE
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