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| | International The Telegraph - Weekly (Nepal) |
 | | The cotton combine, as Bertram Hofer remembers very clearly, had some 70,000 employees in 26 plants, and was largest of the 30 leading GDR combines when the GDR ceased to exist. |
 | | Of the 30 largest GDR combines, which employed roughly one million people in 1990 and achieved turnover of just under 200 billion marks in 1998, not one survived the shift to the market economy. |
 | | Take cotton, for example, or the Carl Zeiss combine, which in GDR times was also one of the showcases firms of the other German state, with some 70,000 employees and a turnover of more than five billion GDR marks. |
| www.nepalnews.com /contents/englishweekly/telegraph/2001/jan/jan24/international.htm (2328 words) |
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