Word: funnels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Motivated by self-protection as much as by altruism, Bonn has offered more than $590 million to aid East Germany's troubled universities. The plan is to funnel federal money to selected West German colleges, which will then be teamed with East German schools in need of help. Bonn's concern is that East Germans, who are streaming across the border, will strain the capacity of West German schools unless their own higher-education system improves quickly. In West Berlin alone, authorities are bracing for the arrival of some 1,500 East German students. These newcomers are expected to swarm...