Word: austria
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That turned out to be an understatement. Today the museum has projects going in New York, Massachusetts, Italy, Austria and Spain, and a Guggenheim exhibit has just wound up a four-month tour of Australia. Using aggressive financial and marketing strategies normally applied to commercial enterprises, Krens, 45, may be reinventing the way museums do business -- and in the process creating the art world's first multinational. He is the most outspoken and controversial of a growing number of museum directors who are fusing hard- edged business acumen with classic connoisseurship...
...power of the far right should not be exaggerated. In no European country is an extremist party close to taking power. Only in Austria, and possibly France, does it even have an outside chance of muscling its way into a government coalition. On the other hand, the rightists in some countries are exercising more influence on mainstream politicians and parties than their vote counts might indicate...
...AUSTRIA. Exactly the opposite is true here, where Jorg Haider, an articulate young (43) David Duke look-alike, is smooth enough to be described as a "yuppie fascist." Last summer he declared that the Nazis "had a proper employment policy in the Third Reich," then had to resign his provincial governorship in the protest that ensued. But he has led his Austrian Freedom Party to a higher share of the vote in 13 straight provincial and national elections, and in November the party won a startling 23% of the ballots in staunchly Socialist Vienna. It just might poll enough...
...capital, pandering to a fear that immigrants are prone to crime, exhorted, DON'T TURN VIENNA INTO CHICAGO. Such fears seem more than passing strange. Almost 510,000 registered foreigners represent 6.5% of the total Austrian population; 100,000 more are thought to have entered the country illegally. But Austria has prospered despite the influx. Through most of the 1980s, it boasted the lowest unemployment rate in Europe outside tiny Luxembourg. Since the immigrants come mostly from Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, they "aren't greatly different in cultural and religious terms" from native Austrians, says political scientist Anton Pelinka. That...
...that, the continent-wide rise of the right is more a nagging worry than an imminent danger. Even in France or Austria, where right-wing attitudes have enflamed the public debate, heavy majorities of voters want no part of the right as ruler. But the right has shown enough strength in enough places so that it cannot be ignored. Democratic governments can put it down, but only if they demonstrate the strength to bring about renewed prosperity and the ability to offer a vision more compelling than the right's mean and narrow -- but unfortunately still attractive -- nationalism of blood...