Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russia and Germany signed the Hague Convention, under which both sides had to return their illicit booty. In 1990 they made a bilateral agreement further binding them to return captured artworks. Since then the negotiations of the Russian-German restitution commission have gone on at a snail's pace. The Russians presented the Germans with a catalog of about 40,000 missing objects. The Germans came up with their own list, involving some 200,000 museum objects, 2 million books and three kilometers of archival material. The actual volume of German loot hidden in Russian storerooms is an enduring mystery...
...Chancellor's political career. "This campaign revolved around Kohl," says TIME Bonn bureau chief Bruce van Voorst. "The Christian Democrats offered not a new ideal, but Kohl as a symbol of stability and reliability. There were posters that had nothing on them but Kohl." The conservative architect of German reunification succeeded in edging out the rival Social Democrats by just 10 seats, down from a comfortable 134-seat margin in the last round of voting four years ago. Says Van Voorst: the election was less a rebuke to Kohl's policies than a signal that voters felt he'd hogged...
...contrast, the total number of students enrolling in French and German has remained relatively stable, with enrollees numbering about 400 and 300, respectively...
...there were 179,000 students studying Spanish across the nation as compared to 229,000 for French and 146,000 for German...
Spanish enrollment surpassed French enrollment for the first time in 1970, and by 1990, $34,000 students were studying Spanish--about twice the figure for French and four times that of German...