Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even if they had chosen another breed, the Metzgers would have been taking a chance. The appalling truth is that as many as 25% of the 20 million purebred dogs in America -- 1 in 4 animals -- are afflicted with a serious genetic problem. German shepherds, for example, run an even higher risk of hip dysplasia than do golden retrievers. Labrador retrievers are prone to dwarfing. At least 70% of collies suffer from genetic eye trouble, and 10% eventually go blind. Dalmatians are often deaf. Cocker spaniels tend to have bad tempers. Great Danes have weak hearts. English bulldogs have such...
...decades since the end of World War II. The Germans won. After the failure of the Normandy invasion, a humiliated General Dwight D. Eisenhower retreated into retirement, Winston Churchill fled to exile in Canada, and virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler...
...embodiment of every ailment besetting the once-mighty military. Communists and nationalists vilify him for the army's loss of prestige and morale. Reformers castigate him for its inefficiency and widespread corruption. Even Grachev's own troops would like to see him go; a recent poll conducted by a German public interest group indicated that officers are so embittered by poor housing, paltry pay and pathetic prospects for the future that only 20% approve of Grachev...
...Wall," a documentary directed by Panikkos Chrysanthou, a Greek Cypriot, and Niyazi Kizilyurek, a Turkish Cypriot, serves as a centerpiece for the conference. The title of the documentary, which was itself partly funded by a German television network, alludes to the most famous wall of the late 20th century. The title recognizes that the situation in Cyprus, although bearing many similarities to the one that previously existed in Germany, is unique...
...Melanie, 19, promptly erected a vast photo shrine of the child she had cared for back home in England, then cried and cried. Three days later, an agency counselor visited and suggested that Melanie leave within 24 hours. Exit Melanie, enter Katja, a 22-year-old German who failed to watch the Lynch girls when they swam at the beach. Katja also couldn't drive, though her application stated otherwise. Worn out, Cathy dismissed Katja within three weeks, quit her nursing job and became a full-time mom. Her conclusion: "Scrap the whole au pair program. It's just plain...