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...tackle labor-market restrictions that can make hiring in Germany prohibitively expensive, but which the spd and unions still support. "The coalition will be a success if we get two good years in which they deal with federalism, tax reform, health-care reform and pensions," says Michael Burda, an economist at Humboldt University in Berlin. "But things will get tough once they start talking about labor-market reform." The question of how to lower the cost of labor speaks to major differences between the two partners in the coalition. Laurenz Meyer, a former secretary-general of the cdu and current...
...DIED. AENNE BURDA, 96, founder of the Burda-Moden publishing house and one of post-war Germany's most prominent businesswomen; in Offenburg, Germany. Born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, she married printer Franz Burda in 1931. The first issue of Burda-Moden appeared in 1950, bringing high fashion to the public and later offering clothing patterns so women could make their own fashionable attire. The publishing house, which later expanded to include titles such as entertainment magazine Bunte and the newsweekly Focus, is now one of Germany's biggest conglomerates; the company has been rechristened Hubert Burda Media after Burda...
Since the Getty, I've designed other buildings I'm very proud of--the Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, Germany; the Perry Street condominium towers that are rising right now in Manhattan on the Hudson River. But the Getty will always remain a touchstone for me. Anytime I feel depressed, all I have to do is go to the Getty, and I get undepressed...