Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon departed as boss of Columbia. Film Finances Inc., which stepped in to supervise the picture, threatened to fire Gilliam if he didn't scale back on the spiraling costs. A producer sued Columbia, claiming that five years ago it agreed to a Munchausen project based on a 1942 German movie he owns...
...Chile sell for $4,000 to $6,000 an acre, compared with as much as $400,000 in France's Bordeaux region. The country has a host of grape-hospitable regions whose weather remains remarkably stable from year to year. Chilean grapevines, of mostly transplanted French and some German stock, are unscathed by the Phylloxera that devastated Californian and European vines in the 19th century. With an annual output of some 70 million gal., Chile ranks 13th among the world's wine producers. Los Vascos, with a yearly capacity of 423,000 gal., is unusual among the country's vineyards...
...noxious cloud hanging over Imhausen-Chemie keeps growing thicker. Under fire for its alleged complicity in the building of a poison-gas factory in Libya, the West German chemical company is besieged by criticism from its own employees, who fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly known as "ecstasy...
...German prosecutors say Imhausen has supplied U.S. drug traffickers with 374 lbs. of MDMA, worth up to $27 million on the street. Two Americans and one Imhausen employee have been arrested. While Imhausen has admitted manufacturing the drug, company officials claim they were unaware the substance was illegal. Ironically, Imhausen could face stiffer penalties if convicted of breaking local narcotics laws than for helping a foreign country make deadly chemical weapons...
Stoll omitted some details from the article because the FBI and its German equivalent, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), were still investigating the incident when it was written. The astronomer now has a contract with Doubleday for a book about his work...