(1) Tami Holderried, Rauwald and Ania Nussbaum with Leonard Kehnscherper, A French Tuneup for German Cars.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... gm-s-german-castoff
Note:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: After years of losses with GM, Opel quickly turned profitable under Peugeot
(ii) Print and the online version (title: The Stunning One-Year Turnaround of GM's German Castoff) are one and the same.
(b)
(i)
(A) Opel (founded in Rüsselsheim, Hesse, Germany in 1862 by Adam Opel [a German who was born and died in that city); remained headquartered in that city; In 2017, Peugeot acquired Opel from General Motors for €2.2 billion, making the French automaker the second biggest in Europe, after Volkswagen) en.wikipedia.org for Opel
(B) Rüsselsheim am Main
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rüsselsheim_am_Main
(on the Main river [where the'ai" is pronounced the same as English letter i; longest right tributary (length: 525km) of the Rhine] )
Quote: "Rüsselsheim's foundation goes back to a Frankish colony in the first half of the 5th century. The first written mention of 'Rucilesheim,' or 'the house of Rucile,' is in an inventory of royal hunting rights around the year 840. * * * Over time, the name of the city evolved from Rucilesheim to the current Rüsselsheim."
(C) German-English dictionary:
* am (contraction; [preposition] auf on; in, at + [definitive article] dem dative singular masculine of der, dative singular neuter of der): "on the, at the"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/am
* Heim (noun neuter): "home"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Heim
Recall all German noun has the first letter capitalized.
(ii) Peugeot (was founded in 1810 and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles; in 1858 applied for the lion trademark) en.wikipedia.org for Peugeot.
(c) "PSA [Peugeot SA] Chief Executive Officer Carlos Tavares, who was ousted as Renault SA’s chief operating officer after publicly seeking the top job at GM * * * Opel posted earnings of €502 million ($583 million) in the first half of this year, vs a €179 million loss from August to December 2017, the first five months under PSA. Opel's 5 percent profit margin is now on par with Volkswagen AG’s namesake brand, which boasts double the market share in Europe and sells more than five times as many cars globally. * * * And for Tavares—a notorious penny-pincher who flies discount airlines, urges colleagues to turn off office lights when they leave, and abandoned the prestige of a headquarters in central Paris for the suburbs—it was another chance to prove himself. In contrast to the flybys typical of GM executives, his first official visit to Rüsselsheim a year ago became a six-hour inspection tour as he took a deep dive into Opel's operations"
(i) S.A. (corporation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.A._(corporation)
(French: Société anonyme (English: Anonymous society); Originally, shareholders could be literally anonymous and collect dividends by surrendering coupons attached to their share certificates)
(ii) Carlos Tavares
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Tavares
(section 2 Career, section 2.1 Renault: he was born in Lisbon whereas Carlos Ghosen from Brazil)
(iii) flyby (n): "a prearranged usually low-altitude flight by one or more airplanes over a public gathering (such as an air show)"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flyby
The word is similar to drive-by (as in drive-by shooting).
(2) Marc Champion with Peter Martin and DanDan Li, China's Pole-to-Pole Ambitions.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/f ... othing-like-the-u-s
Note:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: The country says it's no superpower, but it's starting to behave like one
(ii) The title refers to: from North Pole to South Pole.
(iii) Print and the online version (title: What Does a Chinese Superpower Look Like? Nothing Like the US) are similar; the former apparently went through lots of editing.
(b) quoting the print: "Yet to misquote Leon Trotsky, even if China isn't interested in becoming a superpower, superpower may be interested in it. The US ascended onto the world stage determined not to replicate earlier colonial empires. Today, 11 [aircraft] carrier groups and a network of military bases span the globe to protect its interests."
Leon Trotsky
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
(1879 – 1940 (assassination with an icepick in Mexico; section 2 Misattributed)
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