Word: leuna
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...Neustadt is a depressing example of Soviet-style urban planning, with row upon row of gray concrete blocks, built in the 1970s to house some of the 40,000 people who worked at the chemical factories that once dominated the local economy. Firms with names such as Buna and Leuna belched pollutants into Halle's air while churning out products whose quality lagged far behind western examples...
...part by the subsidies Germany was offering to companies willing to take the obsolete mammoths off its hands. But welcome as the newcomers were, they quickly shuttered the old plants and hired only a fraction of the workers - about 20% of those who had previously toiled at Buna and Leuna. Unemployment soared as high as 30%. People started to leave Halle to find work elsewhere. Neustadt's population fell from 90,000 in 1990 to about 47,000 in 2007, the last year for which figures are available, and some of those depressing apartment blocks have now been knocked down...
...million on art and furnishings for a castle in Chinon. As well as being a sensation in France, the case has aroused anticorruption experts elsewhere. This week, the court is set to hear testimony about controversial commissions paid to German politicians in connection with Elf's acquisition of the Leuna refinery in eastern Germany in 1992. In a surprising development, Pierre Lethier, a top Secret Service official who allegedly played a central role in the German transactions and who disappeared in 2000, refusing to be deposed by the prosecutors, showed up in court last week saying he was ready...
...Peace Senior members of the UNITA rebel movement endorsed ongoing cease-fire talks with the government, strengthening hopes of a political breakthrough to end the 27-year civil war. unita loyalists in the Angolan parliament approved negotiations led by the group's secretary-general in the eastern city of Leuna, and the group's representatives in Europe issued a supporting statement. The country's continuing insecurity was highlighted by a suspected rebel attack near the coastal city of Benguela that killed 15 people...