Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...festival, of German origin, offered events and entertainment for all ages. Teenagers and adults flocked to the arts and crafts stands, while children enjoyed the Moonwalk, the Alligator Slide and puppet shows...
...choice of music was equally broad. The Jolly Kopperschmidts, a German band, played polka in front of Holyoke Center, while a string of rock bands, including Jude, Block, Jim's Big Ego and Bellevue Cadillac, drew a crowd to Brattle Square...
...talk of a coordinated cut in global interest rates. But Greenspan promptly denied that any such move was afoot, and the TIME board thinks he is only being realistic. "The main decision makers are focused in totally different directions, and there is no incentive to coordinate," explains Gordon. The German Bundesbank, for example, is preoccupied with smoothing Europe's conversion to a common currency, the euro, and Japanese interest rates are already so close to zero that the Bank of Japan thinks it has no room to maneuver...
...then to Oxford University's Christ Church College, where he received a B.A. and an M.A. in oriental studies, specializing in Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew was an unorthodox choice at the time but a farsighted one, given Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel. Hassan also knows English, French, German and Turkish...
From the very first sentence, the original English translation insists on K.'s absolute innocence, for the Muirs' formulation does not leave his claim of wrongful arrest open to doubt. Sticking more closely to the German, the new edition states that K. is arrested "without having done anything truly wrong." The result is to cast light on the possibility that the narrator, taking K.'s perspective, is somehow distorting the truth...