Word: switzerland
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...South Africa. In 1991 Lewis, who by then had started a company named the Plantworks, was hired to decorate a new entertainment complex called Lost City. She produced an indoor mock version of the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Since then she has created artificial environments for casinos in Switzerland, Peru, Aruba and the Philippines. Plantworks has grown into a company employing 21 workers and chalking up annual sales of $2 million, as much as 20% of that abroad; president Lewis thinks it may double sales every year for the next five years...
...predestined to reign behind Ford's trademark blue oval nameplate. Genteel, analytical and quietly shrewd, he's a Civil War buff with degrees from Princeton and M.I.T. He joined Ford in 1979 and performed admirably in numerous executive posts, from assembly to product planning to chairman of Ford Switzerland. But in 1994, when he was named chairman of the automaker's powerful finance committee (which oversees the purse strings), his ascension seemed more certain. That promotion required him to resign his operating role within the company, prompting his move to the Lions, headed by his father William Clay Ford...
...Switzerland's New Big Cheese The merger of two of Switzerland's largest banks has created the world's second-largest financial institution, and sparks a frenzy of merger speculation across the Atlantic...
Feldman is currently on leave in Switzerland, and was thus unavailable for comment yesterday...
...United States had to settle for joint fifth place ? with Switzerland, no less ? in the rankings of trade, tax, banking policy and amount of government intervention in the economy. Hong Kong, Singapore, Bahrain and even New Zealand were judged more monetarily "free" ? and as the survey authors remind us, "countries that have the most economic freedom also have higher rates of economic growth and are more prosperous." Alright, already...