The move pushed down the stock price, set off a dispute between Telekom and the bank and drew sharp criticism from shareholders.
The €9 billion takeover — at what is widely regarded as an inflated price — set off the financial strains that contributed to the bank's decision to seek the state bailout earlier this year.
Shortly after the peak that year, a steep tumble in home prices set off a recession.
High prices set off a search around the world for more supply, and it turned out that wild matsutakes were growing in many places, from Canada to China.
Dearer pump prices set off a scramble to swap gas-guzzlers for smaller vehicles, which in turn led to a collapse of residual values.
She also became associated with the Committee for Social Self-Defense, which emerged after increases in food prices set off riots in July 1976.
BP has been on the defensive in the United States, even as high oil and gasoline prices set off discontent among drivers and led to Congressional hearings.
In its twice-yearly Economic Outlook, the organization said nations now use energy more efficiently than in the 1970's, when surging oil prices set off inflation.
Those with the biggest national impact were in the 19th century, when speculators found opportunities that had been created by government land sales and by shifts in land prices set off by construction of canals and railroads.
Stocks rose for a second day as a rebound in oil prices set off a late-day rally in energy shares, and a better-than-forecast report on durable goods orders lifted industrial companies.
Their price increases would be followed, again according to the Fed's playbook, with another round of wage increases, to be followed in turn by another round of price increases, setting off a wage-price spiral that would be difficult for the Fed to undo.
