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...away in banks. It turned out to be a brutal initiation. Germans have seen their investment in Telekom plummet by nearly 90% from its 2000 high after chief executive Ron Sommer led the phone company on a binge of global acquisitions. The shareholders have been screaming for months. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, in the midst of a tough campaign to be re-elected on Sept. 22, saw the punter-voter connection and began putting the bite, or at least the sound-bite, on the company. Last week, under this intense pressure, Sommer resigned, admitting that he had lost...
BOTTOM LINES "Egoism at the top is not enough to provide lasting economic success." Gerhard Schroder, the German Chancellor, on U.S. corporate scandals...
...cutting unemployment. Under the FDP's program, the top rate of income tax would drop to 35% from the present steep 48.5%. In addition, the FDP proposes to offer a 37,500 deduction for each child. "You say that reducing tax costs money," FDP leader Guido Westerwelle told Chancellor Gerhard Schröderin parliament during a recent debate on the economy. "We say nothing is more expensive for the country than administering unemployment." In the past, the Free Democrats have been the traditional coalition partner of the Christian Democratic Union, with the FDP usually securing the post of foreign minister...
...group Reuters, will buy rival electronic-trading firm Island for $508 million in stock. The deal combines NASDAQ's two biggest rivals. French Attack Shares in MobilCom fell 46% to ?7.25 when France Telecom said it was severing relations with the German phone operator for refusing to dismiss CEO Gerhard Schmid. INDICATORS A Toast With The Most Scotland may not have made it to the World Cup, but they are there in spirit. Gains in South Korea and Japan helped Scotch whisky become the world's most widely exported liquor, breaking the billion-bottle mark as the market grew...
...amazing museum show comes by. You know the name, the work has been around for some time, so how come you didn't grasp before how good the artist is, and how wide the work's scope? That's how it is with the retrospective of the German painter Gerhard Richter, beautifully organized by curator Robert Storr for New York City's Museum of Modern Art. (It will be on view there until May 21, before traveling to Chicago, San Francisco and Washington...