Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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East European sources said yesterday he may be tired after a four-day trip to East Germany earlier this month. They said Brezhnev, an avid hunter, could not turn down an invitation to join East German officials for a 6 a.m. hunting expedition...
McKay "based his plan for a new city in the West on bees because of their energy." He gathers up his family, his wife's twin brother, and a crowd of German clockmakers, and heads for Kansas. And the bees of course; once in the prairie, the labors of the bees will be the foundation of the community. The Germans would process their honey, and in the winter they could make clocks. By careful calculation, McKay determined that in five years, his ten hives would multiply to 10,000. Such were his prospects...
Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, spends his time on the toilet bettering his mind with Teutonic tracts. "If I read anything I read German history books to improve my German. I'm not very good at it," he admitted, "but I'm trying to get better." Hang in there...
...have learned that they pump oil out of the sand, hold the dollars, and the dollars turn back to sand." Nervous central bankers also fear that dollar holders will suddenly try to move large funds into another currency or into gold. Warns Karl Otto Pohl, president-designate of the German Bundesbank: "If this mass of dollars ever begins to crumble, it could start an avalanche that would bury all other currencies...
...Bundesbank's Pohl sees the world "moving inexorably toward a multicurrency arrangement." The European Monetary System is anchored on the German mark, while the Japanese yen is developing an important role in Asia as a trading currency. The oil-backed Saudi Arabian riyal could be a new powerhouse, but the Saudis have been reluctant to let it play a role in international loans...