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...Darmstadt, West Germany, became palpable. Images of the cornet, relayed to the center at intervals of four seconds, loomed larger and larger on television screens, finally yielding by far the best look yet at an elongated shape near Halley's heart. It was the comet's nucleus. Giotto Investigator Wolfgang Schmidt, giving a play-by-play description of the images, could not contain his excitement. "It's obvious that there is structure on this nucleus," he exclaimed. "Mountains, hills, craters--incredible detail!" Suddenly the image froze and then, only two seconds before the spacecraft's closest approach to the comet...
...manufactured by Tektronix, a small, specialized firm based in Beaverton, Ore., along with an unspecified number of computer disk drives produced by Control Data of Minneapolis. Tektronix salesmen apparently believed they had sold the equipment to a West German unit of Ford Motors through a Munich-based middleman named Wolfgang Lachmann. After the equipment was sent to Munich, it was allegedly shipped to a warehouse in Vienna; from there it disappeared...
...same interest rate is almost certainly too high for the European Union's weakest economies. Germany's Economics Minister, Wolfgang Clement, recently urged Trichet to cut rates--so far, to no avail--and Italy's Welfare Minister, Roberto Maroni, even suggested that Italy should call a referendum on whether to readopt the lira. But after a meeting of the European central bank's council earlier this month that left policy unchanged, Trichet said the current rates were "appropriate" and "fully in line with what would be best to ... foster growth and job creation." The talk about Europe's dumping...
...concrete slabs, was designed by American architect Peter Eisenman and cost $35 million to build. Although the idea for a memorial was first mooted by German journalist Lea Rosh in 1988, it took 15 years of debate over the design before construction began in 2003. Parliamentary President Wolfgang Thierse said the monument, which is dedicated to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims, is a sign that Germany "faces up to its history...
...polls are key to Germany's federal system because the states are represented in the Bundesrat, or upper house of parliament, which must approve about two-thirds of legislation passed by the Bundestag, or lower house. "The election in North Rhine-Westphalia is an extremely important decision," Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement, a former governor of the state, told Time. "With our reform policies, we've had to impose a lot on people. The problem is that people no longer believe that we can solve their problems. North Rhine-Westphalia is the biggest state, so it clearly has significance...