Siemens, the electronics and engineering company based in Munich, is one example.
That would be an issue for companies like Siemens, the electronics and engineering company based in Munich that is a big supplier to the U.S. government.
Germany's largest electronics and engineering company, Siemens, said it had a fourth-quarter profit on gains from selling some businesses but expected a challenging year in 2003.
The competition was administered by the College Board and sponsored by the Siemens Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Siemens AG, a global electronics and engineering company.
The electronics and engineering company Siemens said it had agreed to sell half of its stake in Infineon Technologies, Europe's second-largest chip maker, for about 1.8 billion euros ($2.3 billion).
Siemens, the German electronics and engineering company, posted its first profit in three quarters and said it might cut more jobs in addition to the 20,000 already announced, as demand for phone networks falls.
SIEMENS, Munich, the electronics and engineering company, said its Siemens Dematic unit had won a $240 million contract to provide the United States Postal Service with a system that will intercept "undeliverable as addressed" letters earlier in the sorting process and redirect them.
"Where did this crazy idea ever come from?" James Whaley, president of the Siemens Foundation, which oversees the competition for Siemens AG, a global electronics and engineering company, said the competition results send a great message to young women.
In exchange for the favors, which amounted to about 750 euros, or about $1,000, Mr. Wulff is said to have lobbied the head of the electronics and engineering company Siemens to back a project for which Mr. Groenewold was seeking financing, the German public network ARD reported.
His father is a lawyer in the legal department of the building technologies division of Siemens, the German electronics and electrical engineering company; he works in Buffalo Grove, Ill.
(He is also a consultant on strategic issues for three of Germany's biggest companies: BMW, the automaker; Siemens, the electronics and electric engineering company; and RWE, the energy company).
