Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blinded cats. Their rationale: cats gobble up plants, scratch the paint off cars and even startle innocents by peering at them through windows. As a result, an estimated 300,000 cats, perhaps 10% of West Germany's feline population, were killed last year alone. According to Dr. Erwin Muermann of the Bonn Cat Protection Initiative, the present epidemic of cattiness may have its roots in a 15th century bull of Pope Innocent VIII. It declared that cats were possessed by the devil, says Muermann, and caused 100,000 women who owned cats to be burned at the stake-accompanied...
...knows for sure why the Lipizzaners were hit so hard by a disease that is usually not life-threatening. Dr. Erwin Rothensteiner, a veterinarian with the Austrian government, suggests that the stud-farm horses may have inadequate defenses against the virus because they have been isolated and inbred over the years...
Businessmen are not the only people to despair. In 1978, the International Monetary Fund sent Erwin Blumenthal, formerly a top official of West Germany's Bundesbank, to take over as the director of Zaïre's central bank. TIME has obtained a copy of the secret report he wrote to IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosiere early last year. In it, Blumenthal describes refusing high officials' requests for bundles of cash of up to $50,000, finding a government payment of $4 million to a Belgian professor who was the guardian of Mobutu...
...begin. In the second half of the opening game between Belgium and Argentina two weeks ago, a Belgian forward, Erwin Vandenbergh, the former European scoring champ, got the World Cup off on a brand-new foot. A pass from Teammate Alex Czerniatynski landed at Vandenbergh's toe. He had slithered through the Argentine defense like a British SAS unit, and stood alone before the goal. The crowd of 95,000, including Spanish King Juan Carlos, quieted for a moment: tradition hung in the balance. Ever since the single opening game was instituted back in 1966-five World Cups...
Nesson claims that then-dean Erwin N. Griswold effectively imposed "his image of what it meant to be a faculty member at the Harvard Law School" on the professors...