Word: chest
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...German taxpayers will have to pay out to prop up the East's economy. Figures as high as $60 billion a year over the next few years have been mooted; the DIW economic forecasting institute in West Berlin expects $30 billion annually. Bonn has already put together a war chest of about $70 billion for & eventualities. Among other things, Bonn inherits a large G.D.R. budget deficit and foreign currency debt of around $13 billion. At the same time, the special aid to West Berlin that West Germany provided, some $12 billion a year, can be phased out, and defense spending...
Anna Golin, who owns Wunderhaus, a giant warehouse of modern furnishings in Unterfohring, says people are investing heavily in home decoration as well: a Rolf Sachs chair goes for $5,900, a chest of drawers by Shiro Kuramata for $8,900. The furniture fills high-priced housing. A no-frills single-family house in choice areas of Baden-Wurttemberg or Bavaria averages about $300,000, a one-bedroom apartment rarely less than $160,000. The most reasonably priced region is along the East-West border, but even there the market is tight...
...however, were from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir or his aides. "You don't resolve problems by impatience and rudeness," said Yossi Olmert, director of the government press office. In the northern town of Afula, where Foreign Minister David Levy was reported in good condition after being hospitalized with chest pains, Dr. Udi Cantor asserted that no phone calls were being put through to Levy's room. "But if Baker calls," he said, "we will transfer the call." An Israeli radio journalist added, "The number here is Afula...
...shares his carbine with two others, does not have a uniform or even a helmet to show he is a soldier. As if to compensate, he proudly wears mottled blue-black swirls on his arms and chest -- make-believe tattoos. His commander drew them with charcoal because no one in camp can wield tattoo needles properly. Other kids tease him about trying to act like a grownup and joke that he even has a girlfriend. But Khi Ha Won shakes his head with shy dignity. "Oh, no, impossible." He knows he is too young for that...
...from the nearby neighborhood of Oldpark, went to New Lodge that night looking for excitement. He never came back. Sometime around 1 a.m., he and a friend were walking down a street in New Lodge, headed for the epicenter of the riot. He was hit in the chest by a plastic bullet, crumpled to the ground, blood oozing from his mouth, and died before he reached the hospital...