Word: switzerland
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ILJA FELDSTEIN -- Lutry, Switzerland...
...exports head into the E.U. Instead, Bern has crafted bilateral deals with Brussels governing trade and commerce. But does Swiss cherry-picking pay off? While economists forecast slow growth this year of a little over 1%, unemployment is 3.7%, well below rates across all 25 E.U. states. And Switzerland 's GDP per capita trumps its near neighbors', according to the O.E.C.D. For firms operating in the country, that's a sign of "stability in the workforce," says Matt Jackson, a Washington-based international corporate location specialist with Deloitte. Foreign firms agree. Steve McCracken, CEO of Ohio-based global packaging firm...
Together they have won four Eastern Sprints titles, three national titles, and were part of a 2004 crew that defeated the British and French national teams at the Bearing Point World Rowing Cup Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland...
More than a custodian of his father’s works, Nabokov has become a jet-setter on his own, splitting his time between Palm Beach and Montreux, Switzerland. Like his father, he plays the prima donna to the media, insisting on interviewing through e-mail with The Crimson and crafting answers in advance for Russian television...
...begin his pontificate, presumably without departing significantly from his predecessor's agenda. Benedict may well fool his critics by becoming more than the intellect-driven, dogmatically conservative transitional figure they expect him to be. My first impression of his papacy is that it is promising. Daniel Breitenmoser St. Gallen, Switzerland Praise God for a conservative Pope. The world does not need a Pope who would bend to its questionable secular values. What is necessary is to have leaders who will stand up for what's right and fight for the morals of God's timeless word. Each generation has lowered...