But, on the whole, Germany's federal devolution has worked too.
Bush pushed for a Germany whole, free and integrated into NATO from the outset.
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It was too late for Rudy's whole family to leave Germany, so they had him smuggled into a refugee center in Belgium.
Germany as a whole is underemployed.
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The city-state's ruling Social Democrats, who also run Germany as a whole, and the Democratic Socialists, as the ex-communists now call themselves, are deep into negotiations to run the capital together, after the breakdown of the Social Democrats' talks with both the Greens and the Free Democrats, Germany's liberals.
And now, the whole rooftop solar registration process in Germany is done online with the Federal Grid Agency.
The doubts about the whole austerity strategy - made in Germany and policed by EU officials - are openly expressed.
"In the euro area as a whole, and in particular in Germany, the CLIs continue to indicate a pickup in growth, " the OECD said.
Inheritance tax could be reformed so that it falls on individual beneficiaries rather than on the estate as a whole, as it does in Germany.
But there is no denying the game of musical chairs going on in Europe, where overly indebted countries like Ireland borrow money to finance bailouts of their neighbors only to later receive a bailout themselves, all in an attempt to mask the fact that Germany is backstopping the whole thing.
Even assuming that rates are right for the euro area as a whole, policy looks uncomfortably tight for Germany.
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"I was making movies like I'm doing now, but it was like a whole different world at that time in Germany, " Emmerich says.
Finally, in Berlin they argue that Germany's strong industrial basis is an asset not just for Germany, but for the whole of the euro area.
Russia has only 10% debt and has just as many trade surpluses as germany without exporting to the whole world forcing german wages at asian levels to compete with them.
The vendor statistics for the whole region were echoed in France in Germany, but during the quarter Apple managed to break into the top five in the UK market.
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In Germany, the interests of the whole company, rather than its shareholders, are seen as paramount.
"I think Germany would very much stall the whole debate within NATO until NATO could accommodate Russian concerns, " he says.
Even more troubling, manufacturing output was down for a fifth consecutive month in the Eurozone as a whole as well as in France, while in Germany it marked its third consecutive monthly decline.
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Inflation in the euro zone as a whole currently stands at 2.6% and in Germany at 2.1%.
Figures for the wider economy, both in Germany, France and the eurozone as a whole, also showed a deeper contraction.
In a circle of 600km (372 miles) from Ljubljana, live more than 100 million people - the whole of northern Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany - and that's our opportunity.
If she can't, the whole family, Aesha included, may end up moving to Germany.
With the whole economy now in need of a bail-out, Germany is balking.
If she can't practice medicine in the United States, he says, the whole family -- Aesha included -- may move to Germany.
The European Union as a whole still seems likely to escape recession next year, but for Germany, the EU's largest economy, the escape will be a particularly narrow one.
Or to put it another way, there may be no long-term survival for the eurozone unless Germany is prepared to use its balance sheet to underwrite the whole project.
That would make it hard to tout any victory as a harbinger of further reform, not just of Germany's football association, but of the country as a whole.
That's because DVD-makers like Germany's Bertelsmann or Canada's Cinram have to buy whole new machines for producing Blu-Ray discs, but they only have to upgrade their current disc-making machines to make HD DVDs.
Unfortunately, Germany did not understand that Britain did not have a lien on the whole world, and that (British interests apart) the views of other powers had to be taken into account, so that the desired territorial concessions could not be slipped into Germany's pocket without demur.
The zone as a whole depends on exports much less than its individual countries do: the 43% of Germany's exports going to other members of the club count as domestic demand at the level of the euro area.
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