The canton is the only part of Switzerland that speaks Swiss German, Italian and Romansch, a language close to Latin that originated in ancient Rome.
Designed by a Swiss-German painter named Walter Jonas, they looked rational enough in plans and models.
Both the Swiss and German stock and futures exchanges are owned by a single company.
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The Swiss-German duo Boy played SXSW as part of month-long U.S. tour behind "Mutual Friends" (Nettwerk), its album released here in late February.
He seemed to know everyone and could talk to them in English or French, and was familiar with the range of curious dialects known as Swiss-German.
For the past 10 years, Swiss and German teams have ended up in the championship final, with the German team 1st MC Erzgebirge taking home the title last year.
The great Swiss-German actor Bruno Ganz gives a staggering performance as Adolf Hitler in this full-scale realist German production detailing the last ten days of the Third Reich.
They also voted out their reform-minded chairman in favour of a traditionalist, and on January 27th, voted down plans for a shared electronic-trading system with the Swiss-German Eurex exchange.
Eurex, an on-line system owned by Swiss and German exchanges, has whittled the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange's share of the German bund futures contract from 70% to 10%.
The platform is a result of a collaboration between the Swiss and German institutes, as well as the University of Rome, the Institute of Applied Mechanics and the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, in Munich.
The way will then be open for those on the right and - it is worth emphasising - left of health policy who believe the funding model cannot cope, and that a form of social insurance, French, Swiss or German style, is necessary to meet the burgeoning demand for healthcare.
This covered not only money deposited by German Jews in Swiss banks that was never reclaimed, but also bullion of doubtful origin that the Swiss National Bank had bought from the German Reichsbank during the war.
UK, German and Swiss executives were least likely to say that they had proposed an innovation.
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The New York Commodities Exchange also tried and failed, as did Eurex, a German-Swiss affair.
Monsanto's competitors, the Swiss Syngenta and the German Bayer, also contract with farmers in India to produce seed.
Vienna ranks highest, but the rest of the top 10 for Europe are dominated by German and Swiss cities.
Swiss, Dutch or German companies hold sway when it comes to large and expensive roller coasters, but Italians dominate other rides.
German and Swiss insurers are required by law to pay guaranteed returns.
In a related study, German and Swiss researchers used statistical methods to analyze the six largest trials comparing Cypher to Taxus, involving 3, 669 patients.
Among the larger hubs, Frankfurt is an important centre for banking and derivatives trading through Eurex, a German-Swiss exchange, with significantly lower costs than London.
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The focus on German account holders comes after the German parliament last year blocked a controversial German-Swiss tax treaty, dealing a major setback for Switzerland.
The German and Swiss authorities recently reduced their statutory guaranteed returns to 3.25%, but this is unlikely to turn their insurers' life business into profit.
The Swiss had led the German veterans up to the halfway mark, but when it mattered they were unable to match the form they had shown on the first day.
Disarmingly measured and charming in conversation, Mr Blocher shows the fire in his belly when out on the campaign, singing patriotic folk songs and bellowing at rallies, especially in the German-Swiss valleys.
The meeting, in the presence of Belgian, German and Swiss experts, was intended to discuss the formation of an Arab parliament, as stipulated by a summit of Arab leaders held in Baghdad last year.
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But Moody's main rationale for all these downgrades - of US, Swiss, French, German and British banks - is that investment banking is a riskier business than many might have thought a few years ago.
The attack coincided with an Arab League meeting that was under way inside the Green Zone, in the presence of Belgian, German and Swiss experts, to discuss the formation of an Arab parliament, as stipulated by a summit of Arab leaders held in Baghdad last year.
Together, a Swiss clock maker, a German glassblower, a mathematician, machinists, carpenters, and a host of lab assistants dreamed, envisioned and experimented their way to innovative products.
Today they have stakes in firms such as German brewer Lwenbru, Swiss hotel and restaurant chain Mvenpick.
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