Word: german-american
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...different perspectives - that of his family and that of the residents of a middle-class suburban Chicago neighborhood. Barack and Michelle have their first date against a backdrop of red roses, and later he mourns the death of his beloved grandmother Toot. Meanwhile, in the Chicago suburbs, the conservative German-American widow Mrs. Schultz and the Obama-supporting Johnson family bond over their worries (the Johnsons' son is missing in Iraq; Mrs. Schultz has lost her house) and their excitement about the 2008 presidential election. Mrs. Schultz, a McCain supporter at first, is eventually wooed to the Obama side...
...deal with Chrysler can be seen as part of a series of "strategic partnerships" it has sealed with other automakers in recent years, including one with Tata motors and a deal to build diesel engines with Daimler-Chrysler, before the breakup last year of that German-American alliance...
...trademark for the rest of his career. His landscapes are more astringent and cooler. His portraits too. The people in those portraits are known to him. Most of them are family, like his son Jamie, who also became an artist, or neighbors like Karl and Anna Kuerner, a German-American couple he painted many times in Chadds Ford, and Christina Olson, the crippled woman in Christina's World whom he knew from around his summer home in Cushing, Maine. But though these people are his familiars, they look to us enclosed, subdued, even solemn, always keeping something of themselves...
...concerned that approving the request would be interpreted as taking sides in the U.S. presidential race. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, for his part, welcomed the suggestion that Obama speak at a venue rendered iconic by John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, saying it was "a vital expression of German-American friendship...
...where one learned that Portuguese teams have flair and fire, and that a Scotsman has a very broad view as to what constitutes a fair challenge. My European education would continue in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League, in New York City. The CSL began life in 1923 as the German-American Soccer League, but has long served as a melting pot of teams: Blau Weiss Gotchee, Brooklyn Italians, Greek-American Atlas, Polonia NY, Hungaria, FC Bulgaria, NY Albanians, CD Iberia...