Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HEYDAY, THE VAST EKO STAHL steelworks was the life-force of Eisenhuttenstadt, a utopian socialist city of 50,000 southeast of Berlin and the pride of the German Democratic Republic. Today the complex of six factories is a hulk dominated by a single operating blast furnace. It glows over an industrial wasteland near the Polish border where thousands have lost their jobs. Since unification, Eko Stahl has cut 85% of its eastern German work force as it closed or restructured its inefficient and overstaffed - plants. The number at Eisenhuttenstadt has shrunk from 12,000 to 3,500, and the remaining...
...accord, which was the first to link a developing country with a more industrialized one in a free trade arrangement is, it can be said without hyperbole, the most significant development since the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...long ago, when the Berlin Wall, the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union were all collapsing, many experts thought NATO had served its purpose and its demise would soon follow. Now the East Europeans are clamoring for protection from -- depending on their location -- Russia, Germany, Ukraine or one another. The preferred solution of each is full NATO membership, an ambition that could mesh with the West's desire to find a post-cold war role for the alliance and a new world order that works...
Health officials made valiant efforts to play down the threat of infection. "The absolute risk for the general population is extremely low," insisted Dr. Robert Zimmermann, head of the blood bank at Berlin's Rudolf Virchow Clinic. Dr. Elke Gossrau of the German Red Cross put the risk at about 1 in 1 million...
...short films about Nazi functions and officials. But it is her feature documentaries that even today make her noted and notorious. Triumph of the Will (1935), a record of the sixth Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg, starred Adolf Hitler. The two-part Olympia (1938), a record of the 1936 Berlin Games, starred Jesse Owens, the black American runner...