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...cost of animal reserach by an "order of magnitude." With certain exceptions, such as the cost of purchasing purpose-bred dogs versus those procured from shelters, the costs of procuring and caring for animals, adjusted for inflation, have not increased significantly and still make up only a small fraction of total funds allocated for research, the bulk of which continues to go to salaries and institutional overhead...
Inflation worries arise because state subsidies in the G.D.R. kept many prices artificially low. Rent and the costs of basic foods and public transport typically were a fraction of those in West Germany -- less than one- fifteenth in the case of rent. On the other hand, consumer durables were outrageously overpriced -- and an open market will bring them down...
...higher than they otherwise would have been, although Friedel Neuber, chairman of the WestLB bank says, "East Germany's capital requirements don't necessarily need to result in higher interest rates." West Germany, a major capital-exporting country, last year shipped about $60 billion abroad. A diversion of a fraction of that to East Germany would meet most immediate needs. Meantime, the addition of a large, lower-paid work force should slow wage rises in West Germany and boost profits...
...that former owners may reclaim businesses seized by the Communists; about 50,000 petitions are expected. State-owned enterprises have been placed under the control of a new government authority, the Treuhandanstalt, which will liquidate uneconomic plants and shift viable businesses toward private enterprise. So far, however, only a fraction of the 9,000 or so targeted firms have been privatized...
...young, the U.S. troops are only an unwelcome tool of American colonialism. Although radical students constitute a mere fraction of the population, their xenophobic views -- blaming the U.S. for everything from the % slow pace of democratization to the country's economic problems -- are winning sympathy from a growing number of Koreans...