Word: berliner
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...derision of Western sophisticates, intellectuals and defeatists of all kinds. It also won him the undying admiration of liberation heroes from Vaclav Havel to Natan Sharansky. Rarely does history render such decisive verdicts: Reagan was right, his critics were wrong. Less than a year after he left office, the Berlin Wall came down...
Four years after graduating from HLS, Mundheim briefly joined a law firm before taking a stint with the Air Force in Berlin, serving on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), playing a lead role in negotiating the release of the U.S. hostages in Iran, two decades in various academic institutions and a position on the team that rebuilt Salomon Brothers...
...bruising it suffered in Vietnam, and saw reversing that psychology of caution over the use of force as an important goal if the confrontation with communism was to be pursued. He bombed Libya in 1986 after determining that it had authored a terror attack on U.S. servicemen in Berlin, and sent U.S. troops to invade the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada and topple its leftist government as a warning to others in the region to avoid drawing too close to the Soviets and Cuba. There were setbacks, of course - the 1983 bombing by Hezbollah of a Marine barracks in Beirut...
...time. Germany, like most other European countries, is sitting on a demographic time bomb. Without an annual influx of at least 230,000 people, Germany's population of 83 million will shrink to 51 million in 2050 and 24 million in 2100, according to Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for World Population and Global Development. Such a steep drop could imperil funding for Germany's state pensions. And despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 10.5%, almost 75,000 jobs are presently unfilled because of a shortage of skilled personnel - just the kind of people...
...relevance." It's a far cry from the 1990s, when suspicion of a Stasi past was enough to force a politician or executive out of a job. "This period where uncovering Stasi involvement resulted in scandal is behind us," says social scientist Ralph Rytlewski of the Free University in Berlin. In an open letter, Runge said his Stasi ties were "nothing to be proud of." But if the shrug that greeted his story means Germany is through torturing itself over the past, it may also have to do with Runge's recent triumphs. In January, German trade magazine Horizont named...