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FROM THE TRADE SHOWS Watching Hermès Globalization means more than just a McDonald's on every corner. It means a world of disoriented businessmen trying to find their way around Prague, Hong Kong and Düsseldorf all in the same week. It's likely they, not the renegades who are trying to paddle a dinghy across the Atlantic, are the ones most likely to fall for the Nomade compass watch Hermès introduced at the Basel watch fair last month. A perfect target might include the American editor of a European business magazine who, frustrated with...
...name refers to Friedrich Flick Industrieverwaltung KGaA, a Düsseldorf-based firm that is one of the world's largest industrial holding companies. A $3.4 billion concern, Flick has substantial interests in steel, chemicals and banking. It is now run by Friedrich Karl Flick, 57, the youngest and only living son of Friedrich Flick, who began the business...
...exhibition opens all manner of tantalizing questions about the supposed isolation of American art, particularly after 1850, when it was almost taken for granted that the successful home artist would have to study either in Düsseldorf or, more likely, in Paris. It is true that some very good American art of this period could not plausibly have been done elsewhere; for example, John Haberle's trompe-l'oeil painting A Bachelor's Drawer, 1890-94, with its laconically joky collection of mementos signifying the past lusts and present debts of a minor artist...
...issue is Lambsdorff s political survival, and with it the ability of the Kohl government to retain public confidence. The investigators charged that from 1975 to 1981 Friderichs and Lambsdorff had accepted nearly $200,000 from West Germany's largest privately owned industrial concern, the Düsseldorf-based Friedrich Flick Industrieverwaltung, in exchange for granting the firm generous tax exemptions. Lambsdorff, 56, is a respected member of the Free Democratic Party, the minority partner in Kohl's Christian Democrat-dominated government, and an architect of Bonn's plans for economic recovery. He promptly denied any wrongdoing...
...first the Japanese appear to have remarkably little interest in the business at hand. Their conversation is likely to dwell at length on social and family concerns rather than on products and prices. Notes Andreas Meckel, secretary-general of the Japanese economic promotion office in Düsseldorf: "German and American businessmen wish to come to the main point straightaway, while Japanese want to create a personal atmosphere...