Word: stuttgart
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Those gains came at the expense of the center-right coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Free Democratic Party, which has held national power for the past six years. The Christian Democrats now control the mayor's office in only one of West Germany's major cities, Stuttgart. And in both West Berlin and Frankfurt, the Free Democrats failed to receive the 5% of the vote needed to gain representation in the local councils, a disturbing omen for a small swing party that seldom polls more than 10% anywhere...
British and West German officials began exchanging information on the most violent offenders months ago in preparation for last week's eight-nation tournament. After the first match between England and Ireland in Stuttgart on June 12, which Ireland won 1-0, some 20 English thugs beat up a 22-year-old Egyptian resident, slicing him with a broken bottle. Before the evening ended, 107 people, most of them English, had been detained by police for drunkenness and fighting...
...risen by 32% over the past three years, to $29,000. As a result, U.S. sales have stalled, and the company has had to abandon its traditional take-it-or-leave-it attitude. Customers who take advantage of the Daimler-Benz offer can tour its Stuttgart factory, pick up their favorite model at a discount of up to 10% and be reimbursed for their air fare...
...international labor leader, Kluncker is spending the semester at the Kennedy Schol as the first Jerry Wurf fellow. Kluncker, who hails from Stuttgart, is conducting a seminar series on international labor issues. The study group will analyze various labor issues--including deregulation and bargaining--and the relationship between worker organizations in the East and West...
...list compiled by researchers in the White House Office of Management and Budget. Among the candidates: a $300,000 grant for grackle control in the Rio Grande Valley; $240,000 for a study of the damage done to macadamia nuts by rats; $1.4 million for a catfish farm in Stuttgart, Ark.; and -- in a special dig at the legislators -- $500,000 to bring leaders of emerging democracies to the U.S. to study the workings of Congress. Not even Reagan has the chutzpah to mention one particularly large chunk of pork: $25 million for an unnecessary new airport near Fort Worth...