Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come to the part where the weak dollar can really hurt. Not only does the falling currency raise the price we pay for Japanese, German and other imported goods; our own companies can now afford to raise their prices without fear of losing business to foreign competition, and pretty soon we've got widespread inflation...
FOLLOWING KRISTALLNACHT IN 1939, when Nazi mobs in Berlin destroyed synagogues and shops owned by Jews, a small window to freedom briefly opened for German, Austrian and Polish children. Over the course of eight months, nearly 10,000 Jewish youngsters under 18 were evacuated to Britain to stay with foster families until it was safe to return. Most never saw their parents or homeland again. While the Kindertransport saved them, the separation from everything they had cared for would be a kind of death...
...York City after its premiere at London's Soho Theatre Company, takes place in an attic, where a middle-age woman sorting through her belongings reluctantly confronts who she had once been. As a nine-year-old named Eva Schlesinger, she says a last farewell to her German mother. Brought up by a good-hearted Englishwoman, young Eva clings to the hope of returning until salvation comes to seem like abandonment. To survive, we see, she turns her back on every aspect of her heritage and becomes frozen in emotional coldness, a rigid perfectionist who cannot give or accept love...
...plummeted to about 6.5 per 1,000. There have been two unusually steep drops: the first in August 1990, a revealing nine months after the fall of the Berlin Wall; the second in the summer of 1991, nine months after German unification. Plainly, people have been too worried about their future to make the long-term investment in hope required to start a family...
...relying on birth control -- or, more likely, abortion -- to put off the commitment. In many other cases the lack of hope is complete: thousands are opting for sterilization. In the state of Brandenburg, which surrounds Berlin, 6,224 women were sterilized in 1993, vs. 200 in 1989. Other eastern German states report a similar increase in sterilizations, most among those in the 30-to-40 age group. In some areas, as many as 1 in 5 making the permanent choice is under...