Word: karle
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...hard and aggressive line only hastened a split of the Group of Ten into two camps: the U.S. and what some Americans now call "the Nine." Before facing Connally in London, the European Common Market nations met in Brussels to agree on their position. Giscard and German Economics Minister Karl Schiller, whose mutual antagonism had deadlocked previous meetings, showed a new amity. The Europeans agreed to press for a devaluation of the U.S. dollar, to be accomplished by raising the price of gold as part of a general currency revaluation. They also resolved to call for speedy abolition...
Furthermore, the abuse of power by political leaders may be a social rather than a psychological problem. As Stanford University Psychologist Karl Pribram remarked after Clark's speech, wars are generally fought by rational people, not by men who are enraged or certifiably insane. What needs to be changed is not so much the minds of individual leaders but the assumptions of entire cultures in which war is acceptable...
...hrer Rudolf Hess in 1941, he exercised virtual control over everyone Hitler saw and everything Hitler read. As executor of Hitler's estate, he was the first to enter the room in the Führerbunker after Hitler's suicide. Turning the government over to Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, Bormann fled the bunker on the night of May 1, 1945, in an attempt to slip through the tightening Soviet ring of tanks and troops only 300 yards away. Somewhere between the bunker and Friedrichstrasse Station, Martin Bormann vanished...
...cars and Christmas supplies of everything from toys to tree ornaments, which dealers can now sell at prefreeze prices. Even so, the main worry is about dwindling inventories. "Some of our dealers are faced with taking on a second line of products like lawnmowers or tractors," says Datsun Distributor Karl Henning. "You can't keep the store open without any beans on the shelf...
...lore of lefthanders is filled with tales of young fireballers like the Dodgers' Karl Spooner or Cleveland's Herb Score who, through injury or accident, ended their careers in one quick flameout. "Vida's one of those kids who come along once in a lifetime," says Posedel. "He throws awful hard, and the only thing you don't know is if his arm is ready for it." Says A's Manager Dick Williams: "I'd like to keep him in a glass case between starts...