Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bureaucrat who serves at the pleasure of a dozen bosses, Delors can be short-tempered and occasionally imperious. During one memorable speech last year, he accused a British representative on the 16-member European Commission of being "a lackey of the Labour Party" and referred indelicately to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as "fat-assed." His blithe contention that eventually E.C. officials would preside over 80% of the national economic and social decision making now conducted by individual countries infuriated Britain's Margaret Thatcher. So does his next major goal: replacing each nation's currency with a unified European monetary...
...Liem, being a master has special meaning. Part German, Dutch, Chinese and Indonesian, he is the College's only minority master. And he says he hopes to be a role model for minority students at Harvard...
...Liem, being a master has special meaning. Part German, Dutch, Chinese and Indonesian, he is the College's only minority master. And he says he hopes to be a role model for minority students at Harvard...
...There are about 60,000 East Germans now in Hungary," Horn said in the television interview, referring to thousands who have not registered with the West German Embassy in Budapest to leave and are formally in Hungary as vacationers...
...Liem, being a master has special meaning. Part German, Dutch, Chinese and Indonesian, he is the College's only minority master. And he says he hopes to be a role model for minority students at Harvard...