Word: pfennigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...