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...offered up a new candidate with a project of painful-but-healthy reform. Germany could either give the much-hyped Angela Merkel a mandate, or it would reconfirm its distrust of Anglo-Saxon-style liberalism and continue to adhere to the continental social-democratic model, permitting the incumbent chancellor Gerhard Schrder to sally on. In the event, such a choice proved too much for the Germans, and today the countrys direction remains anyones guess, although stasis is perhaps most likely...
...polls on Sept. 18, the people's message was that nobody wins. It is tempting to compare Germany '05 with the U.S. presidential election in Florida five years ago, but wrong. In Florida, after much counting and recounting, somebody won?George W. Bush. Yet in Germany, Gerhard Schr?der, the Social Democrat, was trounced?and so was Angela Merkel, his Christian-Democratic challenger. The Chancellor and his junior partner, the Greens, lost their majority, but Frau Merkel and her allies, the Free Democrats (FDP), did not gain one. The Social Democrat-Green coalition was out, but the center-right...
Angela Merkel and Gerhard Schröder were all over the German media last week; often as the butt of political cartoons and doctored photos ridiculing their poor election showings. What Germans didn't see, though, was a clear picture of a new Chancellor. Germany's vote produced no decisive result. The leaders of the two big parties - Schröder of the Social Democrats (spd) and Merkel of the Christian Democrats (cdu) - both claimed victory, but the real winners were the smaller parties. The Left Party, made up of disaffected ex-spd members and former communists, won 54 seats...
...There was a huge upsurge of interest in the topic, of course, because of that debate, but the course is only in some respects related to it,” said Lecturer on Sociology Gerhard Sonnert, who teaches the course. “The main elements are more theoretical and empirical on the topic on a wider scale...
Surprisingly, Machida's strategy of concentrating on businesses in which the company has a significant edge is rare in corporate Japan, where a bias toward bulking up still reigns. Gerhard Fasol, president of Eurotechnology Japan, a tech consultancy in Tokyo, says, "The Toshibas and Hitachis of this world are in about 20 or 30 different industry areas. There is no focus." Even in secondary business lines, Sharp tries to develop what it calls one-of-a-kind products. A recent example: the new Healsio oven that reduces fat and salt content by cooking with superheated steam. The oven...