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...Ranking of Zurich, Switzerland, in the same survey...
INDICATORS Feeling The Tremors A slate of Europe's battered insurers cut dividends last week, including Aviva, Zurich Financial, AXA and Swiss Re, which trimmed payouts for the first time since the San Francisco earthquake...
...also the word for the cork of a wine bottle). His first major act has been to impose new bus and bike lanes on busy boulevards, squeezing out car space and increasing average bus speeds by 3 km/h. Traffic lights in London are being tweaked to favor pedestrians. And Zurich has imposed a zero-sum parking policy: no new garages can be built without first eliminating parking somewhere else in the city. Over the years, several other countries (including the Netherlands and Sweden) have got tantalizingly close to congestion charging, only to abandon the idea when public antagonism became...
Think you've got problems choosing a health-care plan? Consider Michael Scarpa, benefits manager for the 13,000 U.S. employees of ABB, the power-and automation-technologies giant based in Zurich, Switzerland. Until recently, as contracts expiredevery May, 20 HMOs in 40 states would send in six-inch-thick binders containing detailed bids for ABB's business. Scarpa, 37, and his staff would spend days plowing through the paperwork. Then Scarpa would often pay a consultant as much as $45,000 to analyze the bids for each contract up for renewal...
...surprising that Guerrino De Luca celebrated his 50th birthday in Las Vegas this September. He loves betting. When he lost one particular contest two years ago, he was compelled to dye his hair fuchsia. Then he addressed a convention of Zurich bankers...