Word: brandt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...achieved. The wheel of history is turning faster now." At the square in front of the Schoneberg town hall, where John F. Kennedy had proclaimed in 1963 that "Ich bin ein Berliner," West Berlin Mayor Walter Momper declared, "The Germans are the happiest people in the world today." Willy Brandt, who had been mayor when the Wall went up and later, as federal Chancellor, launched a Bonn Ostpolitik that focused on building contacts with the other Germany, proclaimed that "nothing will be the same again. The winds of change blowing through Europe have not avoided East Germany." Kohl, who drew...
Perez's odyssey has been much more dramatic. Not only is he changing his habits of thinking and governing, but he is trying to change the way his country develops. Like Mitterrand, Perez has been a socialist since his youth. He is still vice president, under Willy Brandt, of the Socialist International. During an earlier presidential term in the '70s, he nationalized Venezuela's oil industry, slapped controls on prices and interest rates, mandated wage boosts, increased regulation of agriculture and made government-subsidized loans to low-income city dwellers, peasants and small businessmen. Perez personified the socialist conviction that...
...important for the Court to know thedepth of historical scholarship, rather thanmerely assume what social, cultural and legaldebates have meant," says Professor of the Historyof Science and Medicine Allan M. Brandt, the onlyHarvard professor to sign the brief. "Thesolicitor general's brief wasn't really based onhistorical context...
Rationales used at that time were "based ondiscriminatory and sexist interests that the Courtwould no longer recognize," says Brandt. Thedevelopment of safe techniques and licensing lawshave rendered invalid such concerns about women'ssafety and the legitimacy of practitionersperforming the procedure...
...endlessly entertaining. There are nearly 103 million ways, for example, in which six eight-stud Lego bricks of the same color can be joined together. An artist in Colorado has re-created part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling on his Etch A Sketch. A classic toy, says John Brandt, manager of Toys International in Los Angeles, "is something where the child's imagination is the most important thing...