Word: frankfurt
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...often years ahead of United States ones. And never, ever (in my experience) do the alumni realize that once upon a time, in secondary school or even earlier, they learned a language other than English not because they might one day have business in Quebec or be stationed in Frankfurt (what rural New England kids heard in 1962 before anyone mentioned "junior year abroad") but in part at least, in order to learn how to learn...
...demographic trend could explain. For two years, crime has declined in all 76 precincts. Murder is down 39%, auto theft 35%. Robberies are off by a third, burglaries by a quarter. No wonder Comstat has become the Lourdes of policing, drawing pilgrim cops from around the world--Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Zimbabwe, Taiwan--for a taste of New York's magic...
Beleagured financial writers constantly struggle for interesting ways to say that prices rose, fell or went nowhere. But someone at Knight-Ridder really scraped bottom Wednesday reporting a slow day on the German stock market. The story, datelined Frankfurt, began: "Lethargic and stuck in a 3-point range, the DAX shares index was about as lively as Dean Martin before closing unchanged from Friday in its first floor session following the death Monday of the singer and Hollywood celebrity...
Tadesse's body was due to leave Boston Thursdayflight to Addis Ababa by way of Frankfurt,Germany, according to Nicholas G. Faggas, theowner of the funeral home...
Berman, with the help of his agent Barbara Zitwer, sold the novel for a six-figure sum to Larry Kirshbaum, the president of Warner Books, at the Frankfurt Book fair in Germany, according to a press release...