After the wall's fall, parts of the Kombinat became Jenoptik, a world-class maker of such things as lasers, while the rest rejoined the western Carl Zeiss company.
Under plans drawn up by the government in Beijing in 1994, two or three world-class Chinese makers should be going head-to-head with GM, Toyota and the rest by now, but this has not happened.
Probably no theatre organisation in the UK has done more to achieve that than Lift, which over the last 30 years has not only offered us a first glimpse of work by world-class theatre makers, but also offered space for first-hand theatrical dispatches from artists living with conflict and under oppression who find space denied them in their own country.
We started off as a publishing outlet for super-talented friends of ours and now, 25 years later, here we are helping the new breed of amazingly talented indie developers get their games out and build the next generation of world-class game makers.
Both films confirm him as a world-class film-maker.
Both Hughes and the contributions to the book collection by a world-class group of policy-makers, presidents, tenured and adjunct faculty, staff, students, community and labor organizers, and public intellectuals hold in tension the challenges of the world as it is and the possibilities of the world as it should be.
And with the volumes of luscious milk they turn out, it isn't all that surprising that Danes have become makers of world-class cheeses and extraordinary butters.
And what would any year be without another chapter in the saga of Mike Tyson -- champion boxer, convicted rapist and world-class ear chomper and excuse maker?
After all, anyone can call over some expat engineers and have them pump out the black gold, whereas it takes creativity, social organisation and hard work to become a world-class wheat producer or car maker.
In fact, they may be world class list makers and thanks to the miracle of modern technology, can reproduce a list of the thousands of things they have gotten done over the last year.
