Krieger is among an estimated 10, 000 East German athletes thought to have been given performance-enhancing drugs to help build their country into a sports powerhouse.
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"I thought that the German curse had turned into a German blessing, " he said, when asked what he thought when he heard the final word, a German-derived Yiddish word for a type of dumpling.
Why ought Kleinwort to run bits of the Frankfurt operations, thought peeved German bankers, given that Dresdner now owned it?
The number of Germans working in Britain is also thought by the German embassy to have doubled in the past four years.
In particular, the successful example of Swiss Life, which has seen its shares more than double since it fully demutualised last July, is giving some German mutual insurers food for thought.
In a line of thought popular among German conservatives between the two World Wars, Kagan holds that liberals are dreamers who believe that nations will behave decently once they are part of a rational world order, where all are free to pursue their enlightened self-interests within a framework of internationally agreed-on rules, as promulgated by such institutions as the League of Nations and the United Nations.
On Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel hinted she thought Japan is manipulating its currency.
Maintenance workers at Haggerston Castle Holiday Park near Berwick, discovered the shell, thought to be a German "Big Bertha" Howitzer.
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For instance, proof of the origin of much of the gold in Swiss banks was provided only a few weeks ago when German Reichsbank records, at first thought lost, were discovered.
The disease, first identified on German and Dutch farms, is not thought to pose a risk to humans.
The 2003 poll for the German Marshall Fund asked respondents whether they thought that in some conditions war was necessary to obtain justice.
The airmen who initially thought they had landed in German-occupied Norway were armed and preparing to take the cyanide tablets in their possession until they were reassured that they were on friendly soil.
At the end of World War I the victorious Allies thought they had dealt decisively with German military power.
It is also a monument to the strength of the human spirit which, in appalling conditions of adversity, resisted the efforts of the German Nazi regime to suppress freedom and free thought and to wipe out whole races.
William thought there must be a long compound German word for the way that large events in the world could affect your personal life: the scale was reduced to the point of insignificance, but the everyday effect was amplified.
In the 1920s, German chemist Fritz Haber, a Nobel Prize winner, thought it possible to extract enough gold from oceans to pay his country's debt after World War I.
Mr Sommer is thought to have lost the political backing of the German government, Deutsche Telekom's biggest shareholder, which has a 43% stake.
About a century ago, a German horse named "Kluger Hans" (Clever Hans) was thought to be capable of addition and subtraction.
With that neck problem now understood to be fully healed, Schumacher is thought to be close to completing a sensational return to the sport with German giants Mercedes.
Police are also looking for a corpse thought to be that of an ethnic Turkish man who crossed the bikers, German newspapers report.
Recently I asked the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, how far we were through the crisis and he thought somewhere between 50 and 60%.
Both firms' plans are thought to involve cutting about 10, 000 Opel jobs - and protecting all four German car-making plants.
But Moody's main rationale for all these downgrades - of US, Swiss, French, German and British banks - is that investment banking is a riskier business than many might have thought a few years ago.
Worse yet, the Bush Administration has clearly not thought through the implications of the sort of "payola" scheme being advanced by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
German newspaper Bild reported that Schumacher, who turns 41 in January, had already agreed a deal, thought to be worth 7m euros, with Mercedes in principle.
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