Word: german
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...OED2 and come up with information that would have taken weeks, years or lifetimes to assemble before. Word of this advance in data retrieval has been spreading among computer and dictionary buffs for months. Tompa has letters on his desk asking how many words entered English directly from German and how many references to the Malay language appear in the dictionary. Child's play, apparently. He is more interested in the broader possibilities. "It would be relatively straightforward," he says, "to compile dictionaries for distinct historical periods, to produce something, say, that would present only the vocabulary available to Shakespeare...
...carefully honed five-year plans are no longer quite enough. Even that well-oiled machine is wearing down under the same contradictions of Communism that have driven other East bloc economies onto the rocks. Pointing to the increasing scarcity of consumer goods, ten- year waiting lists for East German-made Trabant automobiles and deepening competition in foreign markets from third world producers, a Western diplomat in Berlin says, "They are treading water. Everything is getting pretty waterlogged...
Last week the U.S. arrested and then expelled a Soviet military attache for allegedly trying to steal details of computer-security programs. The incident, as well as the arrest earlier this month of three West German computer hackers suspected of spying for the Soviet Union, highlighted the extent to which rival intelligence agencies are scrambling to devise ways to penetrate one another's security systems...
Mughniyah reportedly gets his financing from Tehran, and is considered Iran's man in Lebanon; his closest mentors there include conservative leaders locked in rivalry with Iran's would-be pragmatists. Even so, Mughniyah has been forced to free numerous American, French and West German hostages when it served Iran's interests, while his personal demands have never been...
...about heredity and evolution gave rise to the eugenics movement -- a misguided pseudo science whose followers thought that undesirable traits should be systematically purged from the human gene pool. Believers ranged from the American eugenicists of the early 1900s, who thought humans should be bred like racehorses, to the German geneticists who gave scientific advice to the leaders of the Third Reich, instructing them on how the species might be "purified" by selective breeding and by exterminating whole races at a time...