Word: austria
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Without a doubt, Milosevic should be held responsible in a court of law for his actions. If there is any justice, Clinton and his bomb-crazy pals will also be held to account. MARIA GREIFENEDER Marchtrenk, Austria...
...biggest bank, that showed it had helped finance the building of Auschwitz. Deutsche Bank produced this information in connection with its negotiations with Holocaust survivors who are suing the bank. Deutsche Bank thus joined such other European institutions facing lawsuits as Siemens, I.G. Farben and the banks of Austria and Switzerland. The Swiss banks have already agreed to pay $1.25 billion in claims over gold deposits, and Deutsche Bank may end up paying much more...
BORN April 20, 1889, in Braunau, Austria 1933 Becomes Nazi dictator of Germany, proposes "Final Solution" to "the Jewish problem" 1939 Starts World War II 1945 Kills himself...
Keynes was posted to the India Office, but the civil service proved deadly dull, and he soon left. He lectured at Cambridge, edited an influential journal, socialized with his Bloomsbury friends, surrounded himself with artists and writers and led an altogether dilettantish life until Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo and Europe was plunged into World War I. Keynes was called to Britain's Treasury to work on overseas finances, where he quickly shone. Even his artistic tastes came in handy. He figured a way to balance the French accounts by having Britain's National Gallery...
Wittgenstein returned to Austria to become a schoolteacher. But the worm of doubt soon gnawed, and he returned to England in 1929 to declare dramatically that he had got it all wrong the first time. The "later Wittgenstein" spent the next 18 years agonizing in front of a small Cambridge seminar of devoted and transfixed students, who posed curious questions that he then answered--or pointedly did not answer--with wonderfully austere if often enigmatic aphorisms. An obsessive perfectionist, Wittgenstein worked and reworked his notes and left his second masterpiece, Philosophical Investigations, for posthumous publication in 1953. Both books will...