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After World War II, the Soviet Union bit off a large chunk of eastern Poland and compensated for it by moving Poland's border with Germany westward to the banks of the Oder and Neisse rivers. When the German territories of Silesia and Pomerania thus became Polish, more than 3 million Germans fled or were expelled, but hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans remain. In a series of postwar treaties, including the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, signed by 35 states, West Germany has promised not to challenge the new frontiers of Europe. But Bonn insists that final agreement must...
...Associates' elevator banks are artful black-and-white geometric compositions reminiscent of the Viennese secessionists and feature handsome light fixtures on the walls -- short, exposed fluorescent bulbs only partly shielded by rectangular flanges. IBM's bigger budget permitted Strasser to design even more perfectly realized industrial sconces, each a chunk of aluminum appended to a smaller Lucite chunk...
...People think twice about coming at us afterthe whistle," Mallgrave says. "They know that ifthey touch us Flo will come and take a chunk outof them...
Three years ago, the McGuanes moved out of Paradise Valley to their current spread near McLeod (pop. 5). In the cozy living room of his log-cabin house, McGuane throws another chunk of cottonwood on the fire as Laurie whips up a pot of hearty chicken soup in the kitchen. His lean, 6-ft. 3-in. frame draped across a wing chair, McGuane exudes the tempered confidence of hard-won experience. While many of his erstwhile drinking partners have fallen by the wayside, he has managed not only to survive but to thrive in his role of gentleman rancher...
...ALWAYS wondered how federal policymakers could be so oblivious to the size of the national debt. The United States now owe banks and foreign countries about $3 trillion, constituting a large chunk of our Gross National Product. Each year we spend more than $130 billion in interest payments on the debt--money America could otherwise use to solve several major national problems...