Word: dusseldorf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emergence of West Germany as a self-confident power has been a natural evolution?the product of an enlightened policy by the Western Allies after World War II that reinforced Teutonic diligence and determination. In 1945 Hitler's thousand-year Reich lay in ruins. Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf were reduced to jagged piles of debris. The Allies' "carpet" bombing had blighted the industrial heartland of the Ruhr Valley and the transportation facilities of the whole country. It was a country with millions of homeless refugees, without leadership, and with a heritage that had to be rebuilt from scratch...
Jumping is status blind. The sport includes bankers and physicians, lawyers, grocery clerks, house painters, schoolteachers, coal miners and college students. Jock Covey, Henry Kissinger's ex-aide and now chief of the State Department's Israel desk, has 725 jumps. Wolfgang Halbig, 31, a University of Dusseldorf urologist, with 1,200 jumps, is one of 15 Germans here. "When you freefall, it doesn't matter whether you clean the road or you're a doctor," he says. "You just...
...third in the junior division of the Irish Championships and two years later he was number one. Degan continued his winning ways by taking first place in the senior division at 21. He then took his talents abroad to the World Championships, held last March in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he placed 21st...
...even selected chain gangs from the workers' paradise over the Wall were clanked into the corruptive world of blue films and blue jeans, then-on the final whistle of the match they witnessed-knouted off again. Frankfurt airport, with team supporters looking for planes to Dortmund, Munich, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and Hannover, was a Brechtian fantasy of chauvinistic headgear and rosettes. Among the major nations unrepresented in the jostle there seemed to be only the Americans, who have never taken to the game, and the English, who invented it, but whose team lost out in elimination matches...
...pattern of discrimination against women in Germany. The student claimed that no woman has ever been employed as a consultant in McKinsey and company's offices in Germany. She also stated that the company interviewer told her that German executives do not like working with women and that "Dusseldorf was out of the question...