Word: centrum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quantity and quality of consumer goods. Since Honecker exhorted the party in 1971-"to increase the material and cultural standard of the people"-Neues Deutschland, the party newspaper, has been filled with glowing reports of consumer production and has chided factories that continue to turn out shoddy goods. Centrum, East Berlin's giant department store, now refuses to give full payment to state factories that deliver inferior merchandise...