Word: stahmer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...themselves may have to pay for rapacity. "I am no economist, but it is obvious to me that if the West merely treats East Germany as a market to unload goods, there will come a collapse that will drive down the deutsche mark, and they will pay," says Ingrid Stahmer, West Berlin's deputy mayor in charge of housing and social services. "There has to be investment. We must put money in, not just take...
...reason for Eastern docility in the face of aggressive Western sales forces is 40 years of communism. "It is hard to imagine what the central command system did to people," says Stahmer. "Too many of them just sit and wait for instructions. They lack initiative and judgment. It's a crash course, but they are learning fast...