Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pulls one out that is moderately amusing. "Hail to the Chief, President Bill Clinton. Long may he waiver." But the points he scores are withdrawn when he attributes to his wife the apocryphal remark about Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 Republican Convention sounding better in the original German. It's funny--too bad we've heard it before. Meanwhile, that elderly audience keeps on laughing...
...Americans and a German were also rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Economics using game strategy -- employed in, say, chess and poker -- to predict the market. The winners: John C. Harsanyi, a retired professor from the University of California at Berkeley; John F. Nash, a mathematician at Princeton University; and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn...
Nautical engineers never say a ship is unsinkable -- not since the Titanic hit an iceberg and went down in 1912. But the disaster of the passenger-and- car ferry Estonia last week was surely one that should never have happened. The 14-year-old German-built vessel was well designed, carefully maintained and as safe as modern technology could make it. It carried the required number of lifeboats and life jackets. Its engines and equipment were deemed in order: it had been thoroughly inspected Sept. 9 and again last Tuesday...
...being overrun by pumped-up, overly self-impressed orators weren't bad enough, this weekend brings another treat to Harvard Square: Oktoberfest. Which means, lots of drunk tourists stumbling around singing German battle songs and pounding their chests with false nationalism...
...seems to me the most likely way of getting ladder-ranked faculty," said Peter J. Burgard, associate professor of German...