Word: ursula
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...Transparency International (TI) rates Germany as the world's 15th cleanest country - up five places since 2001. Since corruption costs the ailing economy a whopping 3350 billion a year, the government - no matter who's running it after the election in September - had better keep this development going. - By Ursula Sautter Next Year's Model The average working life of a car, statistics say, is 16 years. Jürgen Schrempp, head of DaimlerChrysler since 1995, didn't last quite that long. Schrempp is the architect of the controversial 1998 tie-up of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler, the biggest between...
...where the politicians stop telling people the truth," says Löw, who plans to go global in September. Wages in Germany are so high, he argues, that "it has been too expensive to create new jobs." Löw's "eBay for the labor market" may help change that. --By Ursula Sautter/Bonn
...either going to finish Jared Diamond’s book Guns, Germs, and Steel…or re-read Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. I’m going on a canoe trip with my dad, so I’ll bring the lighter...
Scientists will have all the time they need to tease out richer science from the data that Huygens left them. As even a few pictures show, they have plenty to work with. --Reported by Dan Cray/Pasadena and Ursula Sautter/Darmstadt, Germany
...parents who have dared to venture into a Toys "R" Us, there has been plenty to complain about: outdated, badly stocked stores staffed by well-meaning but generally unhelpful employees. Even Ursula Moran, vice president for investor relations, admits that over the past decade, as it embarked on international expansion and the launch of Babies "R" Us, "the company was not focused [enough] on the U.S. toy business. We thought we had won, that we were...