During the war, several German bureaus competed bitterly for the honor of establishing anti-Jewish museums and libraries.
Schufa, a German credit bureau, abandoned plans to mine Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn after a public backlash last year.Employees at small banks often search social media or the web for the names of loan applicants, says Jack Vonder Heide of Technology Briefing Centers, a consultancy.
Through the 1990's, the United States imported about 10 million liters of wine from Germany annually, way down from a high figure of about 60 million in 1984, according to the German Wine Information Bureau in New York.
Income approximations were based on data from the German federal statistics bureau.
In Germany around 124.000 ERCP's (OPS 1 64, diagnostic ERC, ERP or ERCP) are performed annually (German federal statistics bureau for 2009).
Socioeconomic status was assigned by asking for parental occupations, calculating a standard household income (based on the data from the German federal statistical bureau [ 35]) and classifying them into lower, middle and upper-class households [ 36].
When an average rate of 5% is assumed, 6200 pancreatitis cases in Germany would be triggered by prior ERCP and thus 12% of the total 53.338 in-hospital pancreatitis cases in the country (German federal statistics bureau for 2009).
"Everyone was asking in 2008, 'Where is the German Obama?' " said Christoph von Marschall, Washington bureau chief for Germany's Tagesspiegel newspaper.
The New York Bureau, however, honors German licences, and will waive a test if one is held.
