Word: pfennigs
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...WHOLE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT TURN ON A pfennig? Germany's tried to last week, as domestic and international criticism swelled in response to the recent fire bombing in Molln that left a Turkish woman, her niece and granddaughter dead. Police moved swiftly, nabbing two suspects in the case, while government officials promised an array of moves designed to end the violence against foreigners. Among the initiatives are plans to expand surveillance and to ban extremist groups and even the racist music used to spread the xenophobic message. After two years in which the radicals claimed 3,400 attacks, Bonn is battered...
...services as family- emergency funds and low-interest credit. Despite the decreased value of the dollar, say Pentagon spokesmen, there has been an increase in requests for extensions of West German tours of duty. But some observers worry about whether that trend will continue in the face of new pfennig-pinching campaigns...
...drafting teen-agers to fill depleted ranks of the depleted ranks of the Wehrmacht, the 15-year-old Kohl went through a basic training course in Bavaria. Advancing American troops brought his military career to an abrupt end. With only his tattered, ill-fitting uniform and not a pfennig to his name, Kohl made the 560-mile walk home to finish his schooling. Working part time as a stone polisher, he went on to earn a doctorate in political science from the University of Heidelberg...
...made maintenance of these bases a secondary concern. After that, improvements were further delayed while diplomats and Army brass tried to persuade the West Germans and NATO to share the cost. West Germany has agreed in principle to offer "host support" but has yet to appropriate a pfennig. Meanwhile, there remains little pressure in Congress to improve maintenance-especially abroad, where jobs would largely go to foreign civilians...
...slow, heavily technical speech make him seem the embodiment of fiscal traditionalism. But as a child in Berlin he lived through the insane German inflation of 1923-24. Once his mother gave him 105 billion marks to buy a ticket to a swimming pool that had cost 15 pfennig to enter not long before. But she miscalculated; by the time Wallich got to the pool, the price had risen to 150 billion marks, and he could not get in. Today at 64 Wallich regards inflation as not just an economic but a moral outrage. Says he: "Inflation is like...