Thilo Sarrazin, a director of Germany's central bank, faced calls for his resignation after he published a controversial book on immigration.

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But Thilo Koslowski of Gartner G2, a technology research firm in Stamford, Connecticut, believes that motor manufacturers are likely to benefit most from remote diagnostics.

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But this northernmost German state came back into the news when Thilo Weichert, the state's privacy commissioner, raised an issue of such complexity that it will make the first Schleswig-Holstein question look like a dot-to-dot coloring book in comparison.

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Thilo Sarrazin, a governor of the Bundesbank (and it's worth mentioning, a member of the left-of-center Social Democratic party) was pressured to resign his post in September after publishing a book arguing the failure of Germany's absorption of immigrants.

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