Word: deutschland
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...Daimler-Benz Deutschland Über Detroit? In what is set to become the largest industrial merger in history, German luxury automaker Daimler-Benz announced Thursday it will effectively absorb America's No. 3 car firm, Chrysler. Daimler describes the deal as a "merger of equals," but there's no doubt about who the senior partner is here. Chrysler shareholders will receive just over half a share in the new company for every one share their Daimler counterparts get, and Chrysler chair Robert Eaton will lose his co-leadership position inside of three years...
...started out as a good, green idea. In 1991, 600 private firms, ranging from chemical producers to grocery chains, first formed a nonprofit venture, Duales System Deutschland, to help comply with new laws that make companies responsible for the recovery and recycling of all packaging materials. Ultimately, the legislation envisions recycling all manufactured products, including computers, refrigerators, clothing, even entire automobiles...
...deodorants. By next year, consumers will be able to return sales packaging -- from yogurt cups to meat wrappers -- to the point of purchase for disposal. In mid-1995 German manufacturers will be responsible for collecting 80% of their packaging waste. Augmenting the government's program is the Duales System Deutschland, a private-industry-initiative recycling program that has already distributed collection bins to more than half of Germany's 80 million people and expects to reach virtually 100% before the end of the year...
Just a few months ago, Germany seemed to be chugging along in its now- traditional role as the Continent's locomotive, pulling the European Community toward ever higher performance. But now the "Deutschland Express" has stalled and is expected to stay that way for much...
Other leading party cadres are suffering for their sins. Gunter Schabowski, a former editor of the party newspaper Neues Deutschland, recently suffered the humiliation of being rejected for a menial job at the city's waterworks. But he may have been relatively fortunate. Another red Bonze (bigwig) was reportedly seen washing dishes at Berlin's Grand Hotel -- rather like those exiled archdukes from czarist Russia who eked out a living as waiters and doormen in post-1918 Paris...