Word: gerdes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most of the time, these and other heartburn remedies are all that are necessary to settle your stomach. But if you suffer from regular bouts of acid indigestion, you may need more than just a drugstore fix; you could have a more serious condition called gastroesophageal reflux disorder, or GERD, which can severely damage the esophagus and even predispose some people to throat cancer...
...Reported by Gerd Behrens and Peter Hawthorne/Cape Town and Dick Thompson/Washington
...probably mean little in practical terms. Most of those who commit the crimes either belong to groups that barely deserve to be called extremist or are lone operators. Officials admit that a ban also forces the more organized groups underground, making it tougher to track them. Nonetheless, political scientist Gerd Mielke maintains that the ban "is a blow against right-wing extremists in making their activities illegal. Much more important is its function as symbolic politics, as drawing a line for the public." Not enough of that defining, of what is acceptable and what is not, has been done thus...
...army of specialists -- from physiologists and psychologists to nutritionists and biomechanists. Result: athletes who are training not just harder but smarter. With some players already working seven hours a day, six days a week, "it is physically and socially irresponsible to increase the volume of training any more," says Gerd-Peter Bruggemann, a professor of biomechanics at the German University of Sports Sciences in Cologne. "Science must think of ways to make training more efficient...
...files lie in folders, binders, boxes and brown paper bags, stacked in five floors of rotating shelves a total of 125 miles long. Some papers are baled and tied with twine, some are scattered loose, some are stuffed unsorted into canvas bags. "We found letters we never received," said Gerd Poppe. "There were pictures taken through our window, transcripts of taped telephone calls. There was such a mass of information that it simply could not be evaluated...