Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computers to handle bookkeeping and inventories. A physics major at the University of Frankfurt 16 years ago, he first peddled his idea by traveling from company to company on a motorbike and offering to build a small computer for only $8,000. He eventually found a customer in a Ruhr Valley utility firm. When Nixdorf and one assistant built an economical working computer for the company, so many orders quickly followed that Nixdorf quit school and opened his own shop. Since that time, he has sold 5,000 small computers. Even without new orders from the Hannover fair, he anticipates...
...vital are economic incentives, such as taxing specific pollutants so that factories stop using them. Since local governments may be loath to levy effluence charges, fearing loss of industry, the obvious need is regional cooperation, such as interstate river-basin authorities to enforce scientific water use. Germany's Ruhr River is ably governed this way. A shining U.S. example is the eight-state Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, which persuaded 3,000 cities and industries to spend $1 billion diverting 99% of their effluent to sewage plants...
...opening reception at Düsseldorf's glossy new Kunsthalle was mobbed by Ruhr Valley heiresses, bearded intellectuals, and art dealers from all over Europe. In the crush, nearly everyone failed to recognize the artist, Günter Haese, 43, a slender, shy man with an assembly-line haircut and an inexpensive suit. No one, however, could ignore the 27 works on display. Built of watch springs, mesh, tiny cogs and spirals, the small, precisely balanced wire constructions fluttered and danced at the slightest breath. Bearing cryptic names, such as Hermit, Flirt...
...more recent mistake was to invest $100 million in a new rolling mill that exceeds Salzgitter's steel capacity. Thus the company has to purchase semifinished steel from the Ruhr to use the mill economically. As Germany's largest producer of iron ore and ships, fourth largest coal producer, and seventh largest steelmaker, Salzgitter is in just about every problem industry in Germany. "The only thing we are missing to complete the whole scale of weak industries would be a textile plant," says Wolfram Langer, 51, State Secretary for the Treasury and new chairman of Salzgitter...
...coalition. Now that they have the responsibility of government, things look different than when they merely opposed. The unions accuse them of acting like reactionaries-of dismantling the German welfare system because they voted to impose small prescription and health-insurance fees on pensioners, of sabotaging the coal-mining Ruhr because they refuse to block U.S. oil imports, and of giving aid and comfort to capitalists because Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller has pumped government spending into industry instead of giving bigger unemployment benefits to workers. The discontent has grown so great that it has threatened to undercut the positions...