Word: german
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...kilometer (695,000 square mile) ice cap has trickled south and the race for polar resources has officially started, the international community is paying more attention to its largest island. By the end of this summer, some 3,400 scientists from 60 countries were working on the landmass. Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had dropped by to see the melting glaciers for themselves. And singer Björk dedicated a song to Greenland (and the Faroe Islands) - "Declare Independence" - on her latest album...
Matory defines anti-Zionism as "the rejection of the racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine." Zionism’s supposedly racial nature would surely surprise the German and Yemenite Jews who built the Jewish state together. His claims that Zionism is race-based and "violates Palestinian rights" are strikingly similar to the biased screed that "Zionism is racism...
...long-awaited report on the Core. It concluded that everybody liked the program and was satisfied with it, though in the minds of everybody I knew this was fiction. I wrote to the committee chair with the observation that the document reminded me of the way the East German regime once cut a bridge to West Berlin in half and went on to name it the Brücke der Einheit, “Bridge of Unity?...
That's left Northern Rock hanging. But while the bank may have been brazen to rely so heavily on the markets, as a solvent lender with a good quality loan book, the hit it has taken from the subprime mess was unexpected. While French, German and Dutch banks have come clean in recent weeks over their direct exposure to low-quality U.S. real estate loans, it was the barren money markets those loans helped create that upset Northern Rock's model...
...asked all the time was, What happened? and then, How did you feel?" says Novick. The answers make a much chronicled war fresh, real and heartbreaking--an elderly woman weeping like a child about being shipped to an internment camp or Senator Daniel Inouye recalling rifle-butting a German prisoner who was reaching, it turned out, not for a gun but for some family photos. "That's war," Inouye says grimly...