Word: austria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shell. But though it's a young team, it doesn't lack experience. As far back as 1976, stroke Matt Arrott, seven-man John MacEachern and Altekruse (number six this year) teamed with a fourth to tale a silver medal in the World Junior Championships held in Austria...
...state. It is disappearing, Toffler argues in the 16 pages he allots to the subject, to be replaced by transnational organizations and a "planetary consciousness." As proof, Toffler cites the hot flames of--nationalism. In Corsica, in Scotland, in Wales, Cornwall, Essex, Belgium, Switzerland, the Sudetenland, the South Tyrol, Austria, the Basques and Catalan, Quebec, Western Australia, the South Island of New Zealand, even Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, patriots are going their separatist ways, he says. Some, perhaps those who reset their watches every spring with an easy conscience, might protest that this proves Toffler wrong, demonstrating...
Finally, I must state that I am not German, but my family and I fled from Austria from Hitler's racism and persecution. I take exception to be called the "German companion" of anyone. I am listed in every Who's Who and in the Harvard Alumnae list. I was the first person who filed a class action suit against Harvard University--specifically the Graduate School of Design (1971)--for discrimination, a fact that is well-known to the administration. I also testified in Congress on the subject. I offered to the Peabody Museum and to the Department of Anthropology...
...conducted a successful campaign to hold up construction of eleven new nuclear plants. Even in France, Europe's second most advanced nuclear country, with 16 reactors, the Swedish trend captured attention because France has been confronted by local protests against a new reactor in Plogoff in Brittany. Conceded Austria's Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, whose country voted against nuclear power in 1978: "The Swedish result is impressive...
...government steadfastly resisted the guerrillas' original demands, for $50 million and the release of 311 political prisoners. But it was said to have put forward a proposal offering the terrorists safe passage out of the country and an aircraft to fly them to Austria, Panama or Switzerland. Also included in the government's package, according to some reports, was the proposal that Pope John Paul II be asked to enter into the negotiations, presumably through an emissary. The terrorists' hooded negotiator was said to have shown some flexibility about the guerrillas' demand for the $50 million, but very little...