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...also from France, Spain, Britain - even China. Instead of closing for its annual vacation in July and August, the company went on three shifts to keep up with the influx of new business. "We see the light at the end of the tunnel," says a relieved Frank Mader, co-owner and president, surveying the company's prospects. "It's looking better than even five months ago. The world economy is picking up again." After three years of stagnation, Germany is finally taking its first tentative baby steps toward economic recovery. So far, there are few definitive statistics to support...
...mundane fact that five holidays will fall on weekends in 2004, meaning Germany will have more work days than this year. But what's clear is that consumers in Germany and elsewhere are leading this recovery, not the traditional manufacturing industries. That's good news for managers like Frank Mader, of Glashütte Döbern, whose fate is in the hands of shoppers from Paris to Beijing...
...remains to be seen whether Adjaye can reconcile his ideas about an architecture of community with his artist's taste for buildings that stand apart from their surroundings--like Frank Gehry's or Frank Lloyd Wright's--as one-of-a-kind sculptural objects. What can architecture be when art comes first? There are a lot of approaches to that question. What Adjaye is providing is some answers you should know about...
...Carlyle's Euro Shopping Spree A secretive, well-connected U.S. financial firm may be close to achieving what European governments and companies have long failed to do: consolidate Europe's defense industry. The Carlyle Group, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm whose officers include former U.S. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and former Secretary of State James Baker, this month won E.U. clearance to buy Fiat's defense subsidiary, Fiat Avio, for about €1.5 billion. And now it's bidding for DaimlerChrysler's MTU, which makes military aircraft engines, and is also expected to fetch about €1.5 billion...
...billion diet industry with alternative versions of their favorite sins, from marshmallows and margarita mix to biscotti and beer. And thanks to increasingly successful formulations of sugar substitutes, many members of this new generation of munchie killers are downright delicious. "They've come to my rescue," says Dallas resident Frank Edwards of Da Vinci Gourmet's sugar-free flavored syrups...