"I felt bad, " says Mr. Ammann, who went out of town for the weekend.
Five other New York bridges are Ammann's: the Triborough, the Bayonne, the Bronx-Whitestone, the Throgs Neck, the Verrazano-Narrows.
Ammann said GM's North American profits were down a little from 2011 largely due to lower pension income.
Ammann recorded jumps of 144m and 138m for a total of 283.6 points to beat Malysz (269.4pts) and Schlierenzauer (262.2pts).
There had been controversy over Ammann's modified boot bindings, with Austria threatening to launch a protest after the first round.
In Europe, Ammann said GM still expects to break even on a pretax basis by the middle of the decade.
Earlier this year, Rich sat down once again with Ammann for his first newspaper interview in decades, for Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche.
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He spent the next two days in the bushes outside Mr. Ammann's apartment, sitting in his friend's favorite bar or driving up and down his street.
"They have done a substantial amount of work retrofitting older buildings, " said Mr. Ammann, of GRF Davos, who inspected school damage in China following the 2008 quake.
Still, putting the tax credits back on the books was good news for the company because it's a sign of good prospects, Chief Financial Officer Dan Ammann said.
Ammann's list of accomplishments seems too lengthy for one man.
"I'm speechless, " said Ammann, who surpassed the achievements of Finnish ski jump legend Matti Nykanen, who won four gold medals, in 1984 and 1988, but one of those came in the team event.
In one of the series' most poignant moments, at the dedication of the Verrazano in 1964, the great New York planner Robert Moses steps up to the microphone to introduce Ammann, then a frail 85.
To Ammann, that stance is wholly unsurprising.
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Then, five days before the event, Katie Cotton and Nick Ammann from Apple public affairs showed up at the hospital and took a preview of the tour that the Governor and the Apple CEO would take that Friday.
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Hollywood hitmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard of Imagine Entertainment plan to turn the Rich saga into a movie, based on the 2009 book by Swiss journalist Daniel Ammann, The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich.
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