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Just as the industrial revolution brought in its heyday of top/down authoritarian oversight for companies, so has the cyber phenomenon made much of that "achtung" era obsolete.
OpEdNews 2010
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In Berlin's eyes, it is all their fault they can't "achtung baby" and get their lazy work forces in line, with lower unit labor costs, like the Germans themselves managed after 7 years of deflating their own country into the ground following on from reunification (of course, this conveniently in the days before the creation of the Stability and Growth Pact).
Greece and the EuroZone: Angie, Ain't It Time to Say Goodbye? 2010
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| Reply | Permalink you clearly arent American, right? where are your papers? we must zee zem to prove zis. achtung, troll! schnell, schnell!
McCain Campaign Officially Endorses Lieberman's Claim That Obama Hasn't "Put Country First" 2009
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Then a haunting by the ghosts from the past: Flying Fortress, Dakota, Mustang, Spitfire (achtung!), Hurricane, SE2, and Sea Fury.
Air show! Planes! zornhau 2006
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The magnets on united nuclear definitely need health warnings, however, I remember 'achtung magnet' being on German toy boxes from a very long time ago with very weak magnets, so it could well be based on some old superstition rather than the evidence base building here.
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But achtung, bidders: the prize is expected to go to a person or an organization associated with disaster relief for victims of last year's tsunami.
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But achtung, bidders: the prize is expected to go to a person or an organization associated with disaster relief for victims of last year's tsunami.
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These words of Goethe often come into my mind, “Verachtung ja Nicht-achtung.”
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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These words of Goethe often come into my mind, _ "Verachtung ja Nicht - achtung."
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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When 1930s-style Berlin cabaret meets contemporary political satire, camp and snark, achtung!!
The Seattle Times 2011
Logophile77 commented on the word achtung
Apparently it means danger in German. It is used in "Only One" by Slipknot.
May 16, 2018