Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...financial structures will change," insists Peter Nathan, a Connecticut businessman who is taking a medical-products exhibition to Cuba in January--the first U.S. trade show there since Castro's 1959 revolution. Health care, though advanced in Cuba, suffers severe shortages. At Havana's William Soler Pediatric Hospital, the German and Japanese equipment is obsolete. "It seems medically unethical," says director Dr. Diana Martinez, "not to let Cuba buy this equipment more cheaply from...
...childhood at U.S. military bases overseas, where his father was a Navy engineer. When the family settled in San Diego, he started acting in junior high--the first scene he ever played was from (what else?) The Taming of the Shrew. His mix-and-match racial background (African American, German, Scottish, American Indian and maybe a couple of others) didn't stop him from getting roles. "I can kind of play everything because I am everything," he says. He landed a part in TV's Roots: The Next Generations when he was just 20 and spent seven years on Trapper...
...instance, Thanksgiving was a grim affair in the fall of 1962. On Nov. 20 of that year we bemoaned the divisive nature of the Harvard dining halls calling them, "as complicated and mutually restrictive as the customs system of the German states before the Zollverein." Almost 40 years later, Harvard students may still empathize with that sentiment...
...tally, which included the Persian Gulf War. And while the Army is not at the peak of readiness, the relevant question is not why not, but rather, why should it be? After all, the Soviet army, with its swarms of T72 tanks, is no longer poised at the German frontier's Fulda Gap, ready to pour into Western Europe in the next 30 minutes. Instead, today's U.S. military is deployed, in relatively small numbers, to regional hot spots that Washington wants to keep from becoming global conflagrations. So the Army's admission that the 10th Mountain Division...
...long as I can remember, my father has said refined sugar and white bread are poison. As kids, we were forbidden to eat these foods. Instead we ate honey or brown sugar and German rye bread. I've always eaten like a horse, as have all members of my family, and have never been overweight. I believe any diet that eliminates these two "poisons" will be quite effective. MATHEW H. HILBING Toronto...