"The irony is the government's reforms are being threatened by the very changes they have unleashed. It is the IMF-backed disinflation package's success that set the stage for overdue consolidation by shrinking bank profit margins and subjecting them to stricter regulation. " (FT 1 Dec 2000)
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>Falco, the Austrian musician (most
>famous song: Der Commisar) who had just died around the time they started
>their competition, in February 1998.
Der Kommissar, was Falco's first solo single and a huge international success. He combined the smartness of New Wave with the snappiness of American rap and added his own twist of his satarical, sarcastic "German-English-Italian mixture". Nothing had been heard like it before either in Europe or in the U.S. and it proved to be a success. He had a second major worldwide success in 1986 with Rock Me Amadeus.
http://www.80music.about.com/musicperform/80music/library/artist/bl_artist081399.htm http://www.ontheline.u-net.com/falco/
Hinrich