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...residents of Mönchengladbach, some 24 kilometers west of Dusseldorf and home to 13 of the Concorde victims, are in shock. The six couples and one child who died in the crash were all part of a group of 20 friends who regularly went on holiday together. They had booked the $11,000 luxury trip at the local travel agency Clemens. "It's incomprehensible," says Albert Kuenzel, one of the agency's employees. "We are deeply moved. Many [of these people] were regular customers, most of them of retirement age." His colleague Christian Stattrop adds in a tired voice...
Tatjana Breloh was a statistical rarity in Germany: a woman who had climbed to the top of her profession as managing director of Euro RSCG, a Dusseldorf ad agency. But in June 1997, Breloh, now 44, was fired. Her dismissal came a week after she received a $25,000 bonus for good work--and three days after informing the company that she was going to become a mother. "It was simple," she recalls. "I got pregnant, and I got fired...
...there's a similarity between an American painter of sublime, theatrical Western scenery like Albert Bierstadt and an Australian one like the more modest Eugene von Guerard, it isn't accidental. Both received the same training at the Dusseldorf Academy and acquired skill at the tight, glossy, detailed rendering of grandiose scenes. Von Guerard joined the gold rush to Australia in 1852 but failed as a prospector, and made a career for 30 years painting two kinds of scenery: portraits of the settled acres of the well-to-do pastoralists; and views of more exotic wildness, from the bizarrely sculpted...
Each year, Rudenstine visits a geographic cluster of nations. In 1997, he focused on Europe, traveling to Berlin, Dusseldorf, Paris and London. In an early May interview, he said that his next area of exploration would be closer to home...
...goes into research on, say, safety or fuel-cell technology can be put under one umbrella for savings. Economies can also be extracted from joint purchases of raw materials. "Daimler and Chrysler will maximize the number of common parts they're using for their cars," says Christian Breitsprecher, a Dusseldorf-based industry analyst. "Engines, engine control systems, transmissions, door locks, seats--you name it." As Eaton insisted to TIME, "There's $100 million of savings the first year on current product...