Word: berliner
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...online gambling. Very Expensive Room Service For over 50 years, Germans maintained unwavering faith in one institution: the Bundesbank, now a regional affiliate of the European Central Bank. Thus, the scandal around the bank's president, Ernst Welteke, has come as a shock. Welteke and his family stayed at Berlin's luxurious Hotel Adlon on New Year's Eve, 2001. Dresdner Bank picked up the tab - over 37,660 - landing Welteke under state investigation. Welteke paid his share last Monday and took a vacation. But government and opposition both want him to resign, and that's where politics comes...
...three years in a row, Transparency International (TI), a Berlin-based watchdog, has ranked Bangladesh as the country perceived to be the world's most venal. Corruption in Bangladesh operates with the sweep, intricacy and structured hierarchy of a medieval feudal system, replete with an English-language nomenclature in which "tolls," "fees," and "payments" extorted from the poorest Bangladeshis are funneled up daily through an elaborate web of "collectors," "higher collectors" and intermediate barons into the ultimate hands of criminal "godfathers." Corruption starts on the streets. Every evening a "lineman" visits Dhaka's hawkers, making his way down a sidewalk...
...because containment was working. Saddam thumbed his nose at the U.S. and the U.N. for 12 years after Gulf War I. President Bush correctly judged that the time for talk was over. He applied the long-overdue muscle that the U.N. lacked the will to apply. Charles H. Eypper Berlin...
...have been rambling around Berlin and Paris and London with two brothers and a sister for two weeks, and it has actually been fun, for the simple reason that we had our fights long ago and don't need to have them again, and there was so much to talk about that we couldn't have with nonsiblings present, stuff from childhood when our hearts were open, and now we carry it everywhere we go. We were in London, having supper at the pub on the Thames where the gallows once stood where the highwayman Jack Sheppard swung back...
BRAMWELL: We think playing the developing middle classes around the world is smart. My grand concept is that when the Berlin Wall came down, it opened markets that companies never thought they'd get into. Developing a middle class in Asia may have even greater significance. Also, with T-bills yielding less than 1%, companies with solid dividends are an attractive alternative for many savers...