Is Germany sinking? ASK employees at the Bavarian Motor Works in Munich about manufacturing costs, and they become defensive and defiant, though still polite. Siegmund Engel, 35, who puts together 3-series BMWs, is typical: " People say that costs are too high. It's truethat other countries are cheaper. That is bad news for us. But I think our costs here are..." (he pauses) "... appropriate." Siegmund says he cannot imagine getting less than the basic pounds 500 a week …showed first 75 words of 2437 total…

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