Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the Iron Curtain crashed down. Using West Germany's considerable strategic and economic leverage, he is trying to bring about an enlarged and united Western Europe, which would remain closely allied with the U.S. but would also have sufficient self-confidence and independence to form close ties with the Communist nations. It is a daring vision, full of opportunity and danger, rekindling the dreams of unity that have inspired Europeans from Charlemagne to Napoleon. It may not be realized for a long time, if ever. But by holding it up as a goal for all Europeans, Willy Brandt emerged...
...purpose that Portugal had in attacking Guinea concerns the wealth of Guinea and the importance this wall play in determining her future position. Guniea possesses one-third of the world's known reserves of high grade bauxite, the ore which yields aluminum, as well as possessing diamonds, gold, and iron-ore. This wealth makes Guinea one of the richest lands in Africa and lends to the possibility that Guinea will be one of the most powerful of the African countries. With Pan-Africanism as a political base, Guinea is seen as a dangerous nation to Portuguese interests in Guinea-Bissau...
...other hand, such dissolution and the elimination of Soc Rel as a major field would deprive undergraduates of the largest and most secure refuge from which to retain some hope of obtaining a (dare I say it?) liberal education which evades the iron claws of pain and pleasure reaching out from the board rooms of the earth to ensure an orderly transition from thinking human beings to well-disciplined, highly specialized technologists. "Cut this inter-disciplinary crap, Winkhorst, specialist discipline is the only discipline . . . Cook 'em all down to decorticated canine preparation...
...Warsaw during the three-week-long International Chopin Competition, he was awarded first prize over 80 other pianists. He is the first American ever to win the contest and the first young American pianist since Van Cliburn back in 1958 to become an overnight national hero behind the Iron Curtain...
...International in Freeport on Grand Bahama Island. He is building or planning hotels in San Francisco, Bermuda, West Germany and Mexico. NATURAL RESOURCES. Ludwig owns the world's largest producer of salt by the sun-evaporation method, in Mexico; coal mines in Australia; potash fields in Ethiopia; and iron-ore deposits in both Australia and Canada...