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...Delirium Yum Bizarre product names only enhance the 74-year-old German Ingo Maurer's status as the world's most outlandish lighting designer. Co-created with his colleague Sebastian Hepting, this 80-cm-tall version is the little sister of an installation at Maastricht's Kruisherenhotel, a renovated ex-monastery. The lava lamp pales in comparison with this motorized whirlwind in a water cooler, available in October. www.ingo-maurer.com...
...ministers have purposely staged no-confidence votes with the intention of losing, on the assumption that their party will perform well in the subsequent election. In 1993, for example, U.K. Prime Minister John Major used a confidence motion to his advantage when the House of Commons was considering the Maastricht Treaty, the agreement that eventually established the European Union. After Major’s opponents defeated a motion to ratify the treaty, the prime minister called for a confidence vote in his government. If he lost the vote, he said, Parliament would be dissolved, and all its seats would...
...flee to India. Her autobiography, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun came out in 2000. RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED. Of WIM DUISENBERG, 66, Dutch first president of the European Central Bank, who will step down in July 2003, three years before the end of his term; in Maastricht. On his appointment, the French government claimed it had reached an agreement that he would retire early to make way for a French candidate. Duisenberg denied such a deal had been struck, but rumors dogged his stewardship of the fledgling euro...
There could be calls to revisit the Maastricht Treaty, which established the ground rules for the single-currency system. The plan would be not to scrap the entire euro system but to rewrite some of the rules to enable each country to have more control over its domestic economy. "No one is questioning the basic premise of the euro," says Carl Weinberg, chief international economist of High Frequency Economics. "It is here to stay, and it's going to work. But the ECB may be subject to more criticism...
...There could be calls to revisit the Maastricht Treaty, which established the ground rules for the single-currency system. The plan would be not to scrap the entire euro system but to rewrite some of the rules to enable each country to have more control over its domestic economy. "No one is questioning the basic premise of the euro," says Carl Weinberg, chief international economist of High Frequency Economics. "It is here to stay, and it's going to work. But the ECB may be subject to more criticism...