Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter publicly. But British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has long implied that the U.S. was being wickedly self-indulgent by using so much energy, and in off-the-record conversations top government aides in West Germany and Scandinavia were furious. "Another breach of promise," declared an adviser to West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, referring to Carter's follow-up on his pledge at the Tokyo summit to produce a tough energy policy...
...acidly critical. Wrote Stockholm's independent daily Dagens Nyheter: "As a document of the emotional climate of the late 1970s, [Carter's] speech should be historic. It is also historic in its lack of concrete means of effecting a cure." The cover of Der Spiegel, the West German newsmagazine, had a cartoon of a countrified Carter standing atop an empty oil barrel in front of a sign reading U.S.A.−LAND OF UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. The President was shown painting out the un from unlimited. Stem, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly, hoked up a photo collage...
...fall to its lowest levels ever. They applauded his replacement by G. William Miller, who as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board showed a tough-minded determination to protect the dollar by tightening up on money policy, even at the risk of slowing the U.S. economy. One high West German Finance Ministry official captured that view: "A bad Treasury Secretary has been replaced by a wise...
Victor Brown of West Germany said he wants "to see America, and meet other people to get different ideas for my writing (social criticism)." He also wants to compare German law, which he has been studying...
Williams said a large portion of the grant will go to photocopying old German periodicals, Judaic and Far Eastern texts. He added that he will be able to accomodate most requests for photocopying from the various libraries...