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The Shoving Match Over RatesGermany vs. Europe's central bank: It may get nastierMarch 8, 1999
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`A Fiasco For Germany'As Kohl's tax reform stalls, irate CEOs send capital abroadAugust 25, 1997
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The Mittelstand Takes A StandFor two frantic years, German entrepreneur Harald Korte took painful measures to steer his $80 million auto parts maker, Schuneweiss & Co., through the recession. Axing a quarter of his workforce, he automated the metalworks that his family has run for three generations in Hagen, a town in Germany's industrial heartland. Then, just as the company's outlook was brightening, trouble struck again in March: The big wage hike won by the German metal workers union will push Korte's labor costs upApril 10, 1995
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Germany's Economic Future Is On The Bargaining TableAfter nearly a decade of labor peace, relations between German employers and the powerful trade unions have suddenly soured. As Germany's economy flags under the $100 billion cost of absorbing the East, unions are demanding fat wage hikes--around 10%. Bank workers have been on strike since Feb. 21. Three million public employees threaten to join them unless the government boosts its 3.5% offer to them.March 30, 1992
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Think SmallIf you want to get a close look at Germany's export juggernaut, don't go any farther than the Glasbau Hahn factory on the outskirts of Frankfurt. Although it has only $12 million in sales, Glasbau Hahn is the Mercedes-Benz of glass showcases. Its products are jammed with technology to protect the world's most valuable art objects--such as the bust of Queen Nefertiti at Berlin's Egyptian Museum. Top-drawer customers such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's British Museum eagerlyNovember 4, 1991