Word: pfennigs
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...engine can accelerate the behemoth up to 63 m.p.h. in 9.7 seconds, faster than some sports cars, and the four-wheel disk brakes can stop it on a pfennig. A pneumatic suspension system keeps the car on an even keel through the sharpest curve, invisible wires in the rear window banish ice and frost, and a poke of the finger simultaneously locks all four doors, the trunk and the gas tank...
...obscure, brown-shirted band of fanatics who called themselves the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei-Nazis for short-bought their first newspaper. It did not seem much of a buy. The Volkischer Beo-bachter (People's Observer), was a slender Munich biweekly with barely 7,000 subscribers and not a pfennig in the till. Its new publisher, one Adolf Hitler, made it a daily and rang up a blustering new masthead slogan: "Combat Organ of the National Socialist Movement of Germany...
...privy purse in 1565 to buy the 27 jewel-studded pieces-primarily cups and goblets-that formed the original Schatzkammer (treasure chamber) of the Wittelsbach family, which ruled Bavaria from 1180 to 1918. But to Albrecht, competing for glory with monarchs from Madrid to Moscow, it was worth every pfennig. Over the centuries, the treasure grew in splendor and size; its 1,224 pieces rank it with the four largest royal treasure chambers that survived the decline of Europe's dynasties-the Tower of London, the Kremlin, Dresden's Royal Palace and Albertinum, Vienna's Imperial Schatzkammer...
...invested about as much of its G.N.P.-2.7%. Germany spent only 1.4%, France 1.3%, and Italy a meager .4%. One reason for Europe's low spending is that European governments have done little to spur research and development. Germany's former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was accused of pfennig-pinching, and his prospering government diverted only $700 million into R. & D. last year. By contrast, the U.S. Government's bill mounted to almost $10 billion, and produced an industrial fallout of inestimable value to U.S. business. The push in aerospace alone has created an estimated 2,500 processes...
...failure, whereupon he stormed out of town to return riding in an elegant landau attended by a huge staff of servants. It was a grand party last week, except for one Astor who complained: "They have all that money over there in America, and they never gave me a pfennig...