Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...industrial economy. Most of Germany's neighbors were at least a bit apprehensive about how the country would behave after coming triumphantly together five years ago, but Kohl's administration has reassured them. "Germany is not what it was in the past," says a French government official in Paris. German neo- Nazis have committed shocking public atrocities, but they do not presage a national trend toward extremism. An important proof: the far-right Republican Party took only 1.9% of last week's vote...
Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan said, "I can't judge if there's a problem in the pool or a partial blindness to qualifications...
...goes further over the top with every line, straining in his wheelchair to extract himself from the death grip of his own right hand, a powerful character actor in its own right. This is the classic Sellers--black leather glover a demonic twinkle in his eye, and a thick German accent that can't help rolling over the word "slaughter" with special relish...
...seems to me that [tenure is] the only way in guarantee freedom of speech," said Weary Professor of German and Comparative Language Judith I. Ryan...
...professional athletes -- when they are not on strike or locked out -- and their adoring fans, there is nothing so exultant, as the chant of "We're No. 1!" American business executives are getting somewhat the same feeling. Finally, finally, they are beating their Japanese, German, South Korean, Taiwanese, name-the-country rivals -- and in products like autos, machine tools and computer chips, where a few years ago they were being trounced. The U.S. firms are not only turning back an import invasion of American markets but also triumphing in so-called third-country export markets and even swiping some sales...