Word: austria
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...world civilization. It was named in Vienna in 1829 by one Cyrillus Demian. Right away, it should have been called the discordion, but nobody anticipated the disaster that would befall. Little was heard of Demian after that, but it is easy to speculate that he was invited to leave Austria and settled in China in plenty of time for the earthquake season. The Red Cross has not yet been able to confirm this...
...garbage-laden trucks cross the border from West Germany and West Berlin to dump their loads. Last year they delivered 5.5 million tons of household and construction rubbish -- plus an additional 65,000 tons of garbage that contained dangerous substances. Smaller amounts of trash came from the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland...
...veteran West German Green movement is ten years old and, along with similar movements in other West European countries, has moved from fringe agitation to national electoral politics. The Greens now have 41 members of parliament in West Germany, 20 in Sweden, 13 in Italy, 9 in Belgium and Austria, and 2 in Luxembourg. In Eastern Europe, which is barely percolating with democracy but stuck at the center of the world's worst swath of industrial pollution, anxiety over the environment has quickly moved to the surface. A poll released this month on Czechoslovak television showed that 83% of respondents...
What kind of conductor is New York getting? As he showed last week in leading the Gewandhaus Orchestra though performances of Beethoven's Fidelio and Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Salzburg Easter Festival in Austria, Masur is capable of drawing passionate, powerful playing from his musicians. Neither a disciplinarian nor one of the boys, Masur favors a let-us-reason- together approach that prizes loyalty and enthusiasm over virtuosity. Not surprisingly, his repertoire is centered on the classics from Mozart to Mahler, which he conducts with short punchy gestures, usually without a baton. In Leipzig...
...whole chapters on such marginal topics as whether Hitler had syphilis. And like some other memoirists in their 80s, Wiesenthal has lots of scores that he wants to settle. He is angry not only at all the ex-Nazis and all the authorities who have sheltered them in Germany, Austria, Latin America and the Middle East but also at the U.S. for recruiting killers like Klaus Barbie for cold war intelligence, and at the Soviets for all their political crimes (it was at their hands that Wiesenthal's father died...