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...commuter deduction - from 40? per km to 30? - has big carmakers seething. "It's definitely not positive for the car industry," said Thomas Mickeleit, spokesman for Volkswagen. On the plus side, Harald Grunert, who owns three restaurants, said he thinks the Chancellor's plan to cut long-term jobless benefits - and force the unemployed to take any offered job - will make it easier for him to find staff. Now comes the hard part: convincing Germans worried about losing their jobs to open their wallets. Through The 3-G Looking Glass The emergence of third-generation (3-G) mobile-phone services...
MARRIED. Günter Grass, 51, eminent German novelist (The Tin Drum, The Flounder); and Ute Grunert, 43, an organist; in Wewelsfleth, West Germany; both for the second time...
...involves a West German air force file clerk, Hans-Jurgen Jenzowski, who was arrested while handing secret documents to an East German female spy. In May, two other West Germans in sensitive positions-Dagmar Kahlig-Scheffler, a secretary in the Bonn chancellery's foreign affairs section, and Rolf Grunert, chief of the Hamburg police criminal division-were arrested for giving classified documents to East German agents...
Sadly, Kultur is shunned in modern and western Germany. A man named Grunert (some out-of-towner) does quote a line of poetry in a conversation preserved in Chapter 26, but he confesses he thinks it's "schmalxig." Rehder and Twaddell have in fact found only one man who is culturally aware (he is, I think, one of the Schmidts). Herr Schmidt has written a book Ueber den Untergang der Weltl, he announces with pride. But Schmidt is resolutely cold-shouldered by average-man Steinhauer, who remarks (witheringly) "So? Das ist ja sehr interessant...
...Lieut. General George Grunert, 64, who enlisted in 1898, served in the Far East, won the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I; onetime commanding general of the Philippine Department, was most recently commanding general of the Eastern Defense Command...