Word: austria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years later in Austria, she took home a silver and two bronzes in her first Olympics. After a brief injury, she came back better than ever in 1988, taking away two silvers (the gold seemed within reach when she was ahead for one run, but the dream faded after she took a fall on the course...
...only two days earlier, Kohl himself had gratuitously disturbed the skeletons of the past when he hosted a cordial lunch in Munich for Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. That made him the first Western leader to meet Waldheim outside Austria, breaking the diplomatic isolation imposed on the Austrian President for his suspected knowledge of and involvement in wartime deportations to Nazi labor camps. Kohl brooked no criticism. "It's up to me as Chancellor to decide whom I'll meet in Munich," he growled. "I don't need any advice...
...Whether one likes to hear it or not, it ((German)) is now the most widely spoken language in the E.C." While that may be a slight exaggeration, what the Germans call their Sprachraum (linguistic space) does include more than 100 million people in Germany and in potential E.C. members Austria and Switzerland, plus millions more in Eastern Europe whose main second language is German...
...They've traced it to an international line in Vienna, Austria," said Kenji P. Fujita '94, who has spoken with the police and the phone company several times...
...world's 137 million personal computers -- and the gullibility of their users. In the end, the bug's bark was worse than its bite. The National Computer Security Association in Washington reported that 15 computers had been struck in England, 12 in the Netherlands and five in Austria. There were disruptions in Japan, China and New Zealand. Several hundred computers used by South Africa's pharmacists were zapped. But except for a Southern Baptist church near Atlanta, which lost all its data, and a few scattered businesses, damage reported in the U.S. was minimal. The number of affected computers...