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...approached by ever-helpful clerks in the stores - it's considered an intrusion. The company says it is narrowing losses and hitting targets, but analysts say Wal-Mart isn't going anywhere soon. "I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel," says Jürgen Elfers, a retail analyst at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. In Germany, Wal-Mart discovered a surprising weakness: it couldn't export one of its biggest advantages - high-volume logistical know-how. There was trouble synchronizing warehouse data systems, and the Americans say they were surprised by the lack of sophistication...
...Thanks and Get Lost H Jörgen Centerman was forced to resign as ceo of troubled Swiss-Swedish engineering firm ABB just one day after it sold its finance division to General Electric for 12.3 billion. He will be replaced by Jürgen Dormann...
Those kinds of expansion programs sometimes meet opposition from locals, concerned about the effects of pollution and noise. Jürgen Rösner, a leading member of an anti-air-traffic-noise group in Hahn, has tried to raise awareness of the dangers. But in an area where unemployment reached 12% at the end of the 1990s - and where more local people are now employed at the airport than before the Americans left - Rösner is fighting a losing battle. "We can't manage to activate the public," he complains...
...Germany for storage. The agreement also provides for reprocessing to end in 2005. Between now and then, officials say, another 500 casks will be sent for reprocessing either to France or to Britain's Sellafield nuclear facility. "However hard it may be," said German Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin, a prominent member of the Green Party, "we have to deal with the waste that Germany's nuclear-energy policy produced...
...reactors is transported through populated areas," wrote George Bunn and Fritz Steinhausler at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation in the October issue of Arms Control Today. "Despite the danger, no multilateral treaty requires that nuclear material and facilities be protected from such attacks." Jürgen Sattari, spokesman for a Bremen-based environmental group called Robin Wood, said the November protesters had a simpler idea in mind: an earlier phase-out of nuclear power in Germany. "Our goal is to stop the use of atomic energy," he said, "and the transport of waste is one possibility...