Word: bavaria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cardinal Ratzinger, 63, is prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and thus guardian of church orthodoxy for 900 million Roman Catholics. It is said that Pope John Paul II makes no important decisions without consulting Ratzinger, who was born in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria. Conservatives are grateful to have the brilliant theologian as an ally in the Vatican; liberals like to suggest that he stands to the right of Torquemada...
Remember holidays too. In addition to Christmas, New Year's, Twelfth Night, Ascension, Pentecost, Easter, May Day and All Saints' Day, predominantly Catholic Bavaria, for example, celebrates Maria Himmelfahrt (Assumption), Fronleichnam (Corpus Christi) and, in a bow to ecumenism, the Protestants' Buss-und Bettag (Day of Prayer and Repentance). All this and June 17 (German Unity...
...Unterfohring, says people are investing heavily in home decoration as well: a Rolf Sachs chair goes for $5,900, a chest of drawers by Shiro Kuramata for $8,900. The furniture fills high-priced housing. A no-frills single-family house in choice areas of Baden-Wurttemberg or Bavaria averages about $300,000, a one-bedroom apartment rarely less than $160,000. The most reasonably priced region is along the East-West border, but even there the market is tight...
...great pursuit of pleasure is Luxus, or luxury. It is commonly used these days to describe ashtrays, bathrooms, cars, furnishings, graphics, holidays -- just about anything used in everyday life that is well- designed or distinctive. Frequently it means something outrageously expensive. G&M, a mail-order house in Bavaria, caters specifically to such tastes, offering a catalog of 273 "carefully selected luxury gifts," with a total value of $26.5 million; among them are a Tabriz rug for $964,000 and a gold-plated record player for $75,000. Dieter Schiwietz, a Hamburg plastic surgeon, says women -- and men -- seem...
...weeks ago, I paid a visit to the grave of Ludwig Erhard in a village in Bavaria. I told my wife, Had Erhard in 1948 had to consult with all the different people I have to talk to today, we would still have bread rationing...