Word: angela
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Voters expressed that anxiety in two major German state elections on Jan. 27. In the state of Hesse, which includes Germany's financial capital, Frankfurt, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) posted an 8 percentage point gain in the popular vote - at the expense of its conservative rivals, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) - with a campaign for "social justice" and a statutory minimum wage. In both Hesse and neighboring Lower Saxony, a far-left-wing party with roots in the former East Germany won seats in a major west German parliament for the first time. "Today we have...
...accept a transition away from the “Japanese model” of corporatism and state subsidies. The mere suggestion of changes in the famously cozy French employment laws sparked massive protests by literally millions of students. And in Germany, even the election of reformist opposition leader Angela Merkel failed to change much as the parliamentary elite forced a coalition to stall transformation...
Challenge #5: "I feel like the parent." Angela Bryan-Brown, 15, says she often feels like a parent to her 14-year-old brother Alasdair. "You don't have a choice," says Angie. "You've got to help out, and your parents can only do so much. They're so stressed out." Angie's mom Florie Seery refers to Angie as "the third parent in the house" and "an old soul," a phrase I've heard often from other parents...
...original, Angela Lansbury played Mrs. Lovett as a deranged kewpie doll, inanely flirtatious toward Sweeney yet heartless toward the human remains she pounded into patties. The wonderful singer-comedienne Judy Kaye, in last year's Broadway revival, saw Lovett as the flip side of Sweeney: they're both killers, but he's in it for retribution, she for the sick fun. Bonham Carter, though, is a figure of crafty scorn, and nearly as misanthropic as her demon lover. Ill fortune has ground him down; for her, it's the long slog of surviving among London's lower and criminal classes...
...German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made her views clear by claiming it was "not economically favorable." The Chancellor believes the move would burden Germany and its carmakers...