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We see much more of a structural shift happening in Germany than we do in any other European country. We've spent a lot of money there.

We'll have to wait to see the content of the coalition agreement. It will be an important sign of whether the government is ready to undertake basic reforms or only reforms too small to get Germany out of a very difficult situation.

We had to campaign against a biased media unlike anything ever seen in Germany before,

TV panel prices should decline only slightly in first half of 2006 thanks to special demand from the 2006 World Cup tournament in Germany in June.

Within Europe, Germany wasn't exactly a leader for reform, nor a leader in anything, and that will just continue.

We've been starting slowly, I don't know what explains it. We did the same thing against Germany and Switzerland. We have to talk about it. We have to do something.

We will use the technology in Germany next year if the experiment works. The technology will also be used along the touchlines to show whether the ball is out of play.

You Germans moan too much and should stop. We do not believe you. Germany will be thereabouts next year.

This simply confirms what we knew from the numbers from France and Germany already, that inflation is certainly on the rise.

To be fair with Schroeder, he tried and by European standards he did do more than other governments in the past few years. But the problems in Germany are more entrenched now.

War may never be considered unavoidable. ... Everything must be done to achieve the implementation of the (U.N.) resolution by peaceful means. That is the common position of France and Germany and we will not be diverted from it,

We are a safer country today because Congress passed this critical legislation and acted to save American icons like Remington, Ruger, Winchester and Smith & Wesson from politically motivated lawsuits. Our men and women in uniform abroad and at home now will not have to rely on France, China or Germany to supply their firearms.

We have filed a lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement in the US, UK, Germany and the Netherlands.

We crossed the water into Germany and that's when we got into trouble.

Bombardier continues to strengthen its position as Europe's leading provider of total transportation solutions. We are introducing new aircraft that deliver our customers unsurpassed performance and superior value in traditional European markets such as Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom, while also successfully playing a pioneering role to establish business aviation in new markets like Russia and the Ukraine.

Boeing is delighted that DBA has announced its selection of the next-generation 737 to replace its fleet of 737 classics, ... The 737's schedule reliability makes it the perfect airplane for high-frequency, short-haul point-to-point routes within Germany and to other European destinations.

Brazil wouldn't appoint a foreign coach, Germany wouldn't, Italy wouldn't, Spain wouldn't and neither would France or Holland, so why should we?

Bellow is a very important writer for me, and the summer I spent reading him in Germany sparked my desire to dabble in fiction myself. So I'm especially excited to be recognized for my tribute to the late, great Mr. B.

Everyone told me not to come here. If the people of Germany feel I lost I'll leave quietly, but if they feel I got robbed they should continue to scream like they did tonight until I get a rematch. They should scream like I'm going to scream.

Did eastern Germany not need roads, roofs and factories more than an expensive church? But a group of residents said Dresden needed more. And now we can see that those people were right.

Countries like France and Germany just aren't ready for any further expansion of the EU from an economic point of view. The negotiations with Turkey basically have to be forgotten about for the next five or six years.

Craig Moore has only played two reserve games in the last five or six months and he didn't play very much football in Germany last year.

convinced that Germany was committed to seeing through its modernizing policies, and that the friendship between Germany and France remained the indispensable motor of European construction.

A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.

Angela Merkel believes fiercely that Germany needs a freer, more individualistic society, and more market-oriented economy, precisely because she grew up in the very opposite -- in the communist east.

Erik has performed well for the Hurricanes and we are happy to have him signed, ... He led his team in Germany to the league championship last season and also performed well for coach Laviolette at the World Championships.

European production could pick up in the first quarter, with Germany doing better than its neighbors. Interest rates are still low, and higher rates won't put on the brakes.

Even if some have written occasionally about the motor stuttering, the last really historical steps that Europe has taken show that this relationship between Germany and France is in an extremely good state,

Even if it sounds odd, it's true that -- given the current regulations -- Germany is dependent on illegal employment of foreign laborers.

There's no cuddle corner anymore, and Germany is adapting to what's already common in Anglo-Saxon regions. It's surprising how quickly this has been happening.

I see stuff from Italy and Germany and elsewhere, more than America. My friends in China are buying apartments, fitting out their kitchens with Italian appliances. The other technology goods are from Germany. We are not very good in America at export promotion. Our government needs to put more into it and our politicians have to focus on it.

I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like Korea, Japan, Alaska, Germany and the Netherlands.

The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the biggest pullout ever by an army not defeated in battle.'

The World Cup motto is 'A Time to Make Friends,' and friends should be offered friendly opening times. We want to campaign for shopping in Germany so the more than 1 million visitors in Germany for the World Cup come back to go shopping.

It would be bizarre if we were to adopt a position of silence when countries like Germany were moving in the opposite direction,

These challenges can only be mastered together. With great expectation, I see our continued cooperation on the basis of the close friendship between Germany and the United States.

These bids are the expression of future growth for Germany companies. German groups are thinking about their future and about expanding.

The stars of the tournament will serve as role models for hundreds of millions of other players around the world. So it is all the more important that Germany 2006 sets a positive example.

These measures contribute significantly to increasing the confidence of foreign investors, ... Germany will support the reform process with great commitment.

The stalemate that emerged in the election is of course the worst result that you could have wished for, the worst for the interests of Germany and for Europe .

The team is mature. You're going to see that here, we've by far not reached our goals yet. We have Germany tomorrow. There's no time to sit on this. They can look back on this period for the rest of their life and they should do that with pride but they're not going to do that right now. I know that.

The symbol of Germany -- and of German unity -- should have an appearance worthy of its symbolic status.

The supply of gas without disruption is a key part of the relations between Germany and both countries.

The summit succeeded last week in demonstrating that the EU is capable of action. Germany played a crucial mediating role without sacrificing national interests. We have made clear we see this as a huge success.

I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.

Ten nations, mostly from the former Soviet Union, including Russia itself with its 13 per cent rate, have embraced a flat tax. And the economies of these countries are reaping their reward: they far outpace crusty old Europe in GDP growth and job creation. China, Germany and Spain could be the next dominoes to fall.

Temperatures throughout Northwest Europe have dipped below normal. Temperatures in England, northern France and Germany will be 4 to 10 degrees below normal on Friday and through the weekend. The cold looks set to continue further out as well.

Schools in England need to spend time teaching what happened in Germany after 1945.

Normally, ... I don't read new plays. This is a professional deformation I have. If I'm lucky, I can work for another 10 years. But, since there are so many first-class plays in world drama, why should I do the lousy plays of today? However, I told Brian McMaster that Harrower's Knives and Hens was a big success in Germany and Brian brought us together. David came to stay for a weekend in Italy and I tried to talk to him about ideas and structure. I thought it was a total disaster: no contact, no real communication. The next thing I knew David had come up with an amazing first draft of Blackbird.

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

After playing Switzerland and Germany and winning like 6-0, this was a good challenge for us. We needed a game like this to get us going. Now we're kind of in a groove.

Coach Arena has told me to be ready for Wednesday, ... so I am hoping I will get an opportunity to show what I can do to help this team in Germany next year. All I need is the opportunity, and then it's up to me to show Coach Arena.

are going to be Japan and the United Kingdom, America's No. 1 and No. 2 largest overseas markets, respectively. An in-country presence will also be established in Brazil, which is our largest South American market. And in subsequent years the program will expand to Germany and perhaps to several other countries as well.

And then '74 as I mentioned and then the 1990 world cup was our team was the team of the reunification you know, so we were the team for both sides of Germany so now, you know throughout the last 16 years, we've melted together. And now comes the next milestone.

As far as Germany and France are concerned, really, this was a regrettable position they had, ... I don't think the Iraqis are going to forget easily that in the hour of need, those countries wanted to neglect Iraq.

As a result, most pundits have written us off and I came under strong pressure from the media in Ghana but we have pulled our socks up and are determined to give our fans in Germany something to cheer about.

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.

'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.

As plastic surgeons, we use our general surgery training to help treat initial trauma in the field to save the patient's life or limb. From there, they are transferred to Germany to help them stabilize, clear the infection and allow the wound to heal a bit,

This is hurting the teams. Kahn certainly wouldn't have played the match if the decision over the Germany goalkeeper was settled.

This is not going to be enough - we're still looking for another 50 basis points by the end of the year, ... But it's the right move for the moment. A rise of 50 basis points would have cast doubt in the market about the sustainability of growth, in Germany in particular.

This is not about ritual, it about a deep conviction that a strong relationship between Germany and France is both necessary and beneficial to Europe,

The West has turned out a host of other movies similar to 'Schindler's List'. This has, to some extent, led to Germany apologizing for its wartime crimes.

This crime deeply shocked all of Germany and united it in sadness and sympathy,

This does nothing for the prospect for reform, in Germany or Europe in general.

This company was really waiting for leadership, like Germany is waiting for leadership,

This accident is extremely serious, ... I am thinking about all the victims, the crew, and our friends in Germany who made up most of the passengers. I have also conveyed my condolences to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

They're the only other team to beat (defending World Cup champion) Germany this year, ... They're very strong, very physical, very good in the air and very good in the counterattack.

They (U.S. authorities) could have asked Germany to hand him over to the United States. Why are they asking us?

Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.

They are beginning to understand the game is growing in interest. There will be players in Germany at very high levels. Then the sport will start rolling along. It will enrich what we do over here.

There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how.

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.

There probably will be only tentative reforms in France now, if any at all, until the 2007 election. And whatever government emerges in Italy, it looks as if it will lack the broad mandate needed to implement necessary changes. Germany is definitely ahead of them at least with part of the reforms.

This is the result of excellent work. I'm very proud of my players and I'm sure that we will play an excellent role next year in Germany 2006.

They have some very big challenges in the mobile business in Germany and the UK and also in broadband in Germany.

There's everything here for players and families to both experience the culture of Germany as well feel comfortable that this is a city that is similar to cities in the United States. And it's a perfect match: great restaurants, lots of entertainment, lot of things to do, a great hotel, great training facilities. Everything we want is here.

At least I know the lady in Germany will be slowing down a bit now, at 63 it's probably nearly time to give up,

It wasn't very long ago that France and Germany had ROEs of 2 percent, and now they're both in the double digits.

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

It never occurred to anyone in a responsible position that Germany and Russia might make common cause, even temporarily, against the West.

It's a real pity we had that puncture. The fight with Dani was fantastic. But I'm not sure that we could have conquered the first place. To finish second here is for me a great result on my first outing in Germany !

It is worth noting that, in its revised forecasts for GDP growth, the OECD saw fit to raise its 1999 forecasts for most (euro-zone) member-countries, as compared with its June projections, but lowered those for Germany and Italy.

Football banning orders are one of the key tools we are using in the ongoing fight to keep Germany free from any travelling trouble-makers.

It's the right decision. We are one of the teams who have the potential to do very well in Germany and we have some of the best players in the world. Finishing top of our qualification group with the second-best record in the whole of Europe was a big achievement.

It's going to be a World Cup-type game with a World Cup-type atmosphere because of the pressure on Germany to win right now.

It's good to collaborate between Germany and Brazil on design. You can have people in many locations.

It's repulsive to claim that terror and extremism will be imported to Germany if we modernize our citizenship laws,

DaVarryl wanted to fight his way to the spot and Wladimir didn't want no part of it. They just wanted everything set up in their favor, knowing going to Germany is not a great thing for any American fighter.

Does one guy play against Germany and another against Canada? You can play against Germany and someone else and get two shutouts, or you could play against Canada, give up four goals and play great. How would you really decide?

The beginning of the 19th century in Germany and Vienna was a new era with German composers writing in the German language.

The agreement is lower than expected and it's good news for Germany and for the euro zone because the ECB will have one reason less to raise interest rates. The whole package entails a total rise of 5.1 percent over 24 months, so for German standards that is a really good agreement.

That is wrong. Germany was not on the side of those waging war. We did not supply the Americans with any target data.

Sure, I acted in films in the Third Reich, entertainment films, which distracted countless people inside and outside Germany from daily life during war.

It's definitely the next big boom, if it's not already, for the PC market. If you talk to Intel, they say China is their third largest market behind the U.S. and Japan. It passed Germany recently. And with PCs getting cheaper, that will be good for Internet companies.

It was a mental victory more than anything else. I am very proud of my team because it is very, very difficult to beat Germany especially when they are at home.

It took far too long for this book to be written. But it also took a long time for Germany as a nation to be able to look clearly at what happened in the Nazi era.

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

The U.S. consumer confidence data was very, very robust and the data from Germany was a factor in supporting the euro, but a lot of investors are not willing to run any risk at the moment.