Word: frankfurter
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...Union economies to expand by roughly 2.6%, off only slightly from last year's 3.2%. But try telling that to investors: last week Europe's bourses fell right alongside the Dow and the NASDAQ. London's FTSE 100 index lost 6%, while the Paris cac 40 fell 5% and Frankfurt's dax closed down 7%. And that's to say nothing of all those faltering American-style "new markets...
...result of the markets' perception that Turkey lacks the political will to reform its economy-undermines the country's credibility at a time when it is trying to join the European Union. And as the euro itself wobbled, the beads of sweat on the faces of bankers in Frankfurt and London as they watched the lira's plunge was proof positive that Turkey, whatever the pace of its integration into E.U. institutions, is already in Europe...
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...that. In its closely reasoned ruling, the court laid out why it believed evidence that the bomb, concealed in a Toshiba radio-cassette player, was placed in a brown Samsonite suitcase amid clothes purchased in Malta. Exactly how that suitcase was spirited aboard an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt is unknown, but the court was convinced that it had been, that it was transferred to a Pan Am flight in Frankfurt and then in London again to the New York-bound plane. The court put ample credence in Maltese shopowner Tony Gauci, who described a man who seemed strangely...
...about who replaces whom. Maybe Shanghai's economic growth will surpass that of Hong Kong. But that would not be a "replacement." When Frankfurt started to grow and became a financial center, it could not replace London--they have different traditions and markets. I think Hong Kong will be Asia's financial hub, but Shanghai will be the financial center of China. Its role will be to link China and the world...