Word: germane
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...Over in Austria, there was a bit of excitement when Polish and German fans exchanged the usual pregame punches, but this is no England-Germany, and once the proceedings started in the Worthersee Stadion in Klagenfurt, the Germans got down to business. And they were all business. Poland had a chance to score 36 seconds into the match when German keeper Jens Lehman bundled into his own defender as he pushed out a cross that rolled invitingly in the box. But Jacek Krzynówek launched one over the bar. From then on, the Poles were weaker than...
Michael Seton, a managing director in the New York office of German-based property lender Eurohypo AG, said foreigners view the U.S. market as a long-term investment. "They're less rattled by the subprime crisis and short-term gyrations in the market," Seton explains. "Their horizon is longer, which in the end is good for the real estate business. These are properties that are meant to be held onto." The new Italian owners of the Flatiron say they're in for the long haul and plan to seek city approval for a new project to illuminate the exterior...
...that the nuclear industry can't compete on the free market on its own terms - or even without the billions in subsidies it already receives. But renewables also receive their share of government largesse - the booming global solar industry wouldn't be anywhere near as hot without a generous German tariff. New research and development might cut atomic costs, just as we hope will happen for alternatives. And the sheer size of the problem facing the global energy industry demands that no solution can be dismissed out of hand. On June 6 the International Energy Agency released a study calling...
...author of two books, Harris works in a sparsely decorated, gray office in University Hall and an office in the Semitic Museum, lined with books about modern European history, Jewish history, religion, and philosophy in English as well as Hebrew, German, Dutch, and Yiddish...
...Spencer’s own education is extensive: she prepped at Phillips Exeter Academy, whose board she serves on, before attending Williams College, where she studied history and German; Oxford, where she read theology; and Harvard, where she studied religion. She received her final degree in 1985 with a J.D. from Yale Law School...