Word: switzerland
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...Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. How come? For one thing, Germany and the other 11 euro-zone nations now have a much bigger internal market to sell to without exchange-rate risks, and some of the zone's important trading partners, including Britain and Switzerland, haven't suffered U.S.-style currency falls...
...last place Carly Fiorina expected to be last Wednesday was home. A hard-driving, jet-setting business titan, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard had a packed calendar that week, including a meeting with President Bush. She had recently returned from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, where she always loomed large, even at an event stuffed with corporate Pooh-Bahs and heads of state. Now, holed up in her Los Altos Hills, Calif., home and protected by three security guards, she fielded e-mails from well-wishers and contemplated her next career move--just like so many other cashiered Silicon...
...Crimson played both games without freshman Sarah Vaillancourt, who represented her native country in Duisberg, Germany playing for Hockey Canada U-22 at the Air Canada Cup. Vaillancourt and Canada faced teams from Finland, Germany, and Switzerland in the tournament...
...DIED. EPHRAIM KISHON, 80, Hungarian Holocaust survivor and satirist whose novels sold more than 43 million copies in 37 languages; in Switzerland. After surviving the Nazi death camps, Kishon fled to Israel, where he wrote news columns, novels, plays and films. Although he never found a wide audience in the English-speaking world, his works were widely read in Europe and Israel; his 1980 novel, Sefer Mishpahti, is the best-selling book in Hebrew after the Bible. Kishon appreciated the irony of his success in post-war Germany: "It is a great satisfaction for me to see the grandchildren...
...rock star and activist is to loudly applaud when politicians get it right and to make their lives a misery when they do not." BONO, lead singer of U2, urging political and business leaders to do more to fight poverty in Africa, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland...