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...thing that infuriates voters is the knife-point targeting of the taxes being introduced by Schröder and his Finance Minister, Hans Eichel. Dog owners will get slapped with a tax of 16% on pet food; company cars will be hit with a 1.5% tax, leading the auto industry to predict 150,000 fewer cars will be sold next year. Air travelers were threatened with a 15% tax on frequent-flyer miles, prompting national airline Lufthansa to say it was considering moving its program overseas, which would eliminate 500 jobs. The government will impose a flat...
...talks resumed on Sept. 3 after a summer recess, but a war of words was heating up before that date. German Finance Minister Hans Eichel publicly reprimanded Switzerland at the E.U.?s Seville summit in June, saying it was unacceptable for any nation to make a living as "a safe haven for tax evaders." A British treasury minister, Paul Boateng, has attacked Swiss banking secrecy as an obstacle to fighting terrorism. And E.U. officials say privately that they expect pressure on Switzerland to build this fall as more politicians direct the spotlight toward Swiss morals. "The Swiss will inevitably...
...hand, he raised his long club high over his head, and brought..the club crashing down on the girl's head. The force of the swing nearly lifted the trooper from the floor; the girl screamed and blood cascaded onto Dean Glimp's blue carpet" (The Harvard Strike, L. Eichel...
...Eichel, last seen thumbing at the Mass Pike toll booths, left two matches undecided, and the Crime had to settle...
...CRIMSON subsequently challenged WHRB to a fencing match on the second floor of the IAB. The CRIMSON built a 9-0 lead in the first round and could have swept the match, but Eichel slipped out of the room when he noticed Kinsley, the Crime's number-two saber using a file to sharpen her blade for her match with Eichel...