Word: karle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teachers asked the town council to drop the name. They are still awaiting action, but they are patient and confident -- with some reservations. "It would not be proper to ignore our entire history," says Barbel Dudelitz, an English-language teacher who has yet to take down portraits of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in her classroom...
Ruge, whose father was killed in the war, studied history and political science, volunteered long enough for the army to get his parachute wings and then turned to journalism. Karl-Ernst Freitag and Artwin Priebisch studied marine engineering, spent a couple of summers sailing the high seas, only to drift into other endeavors: teaching for Freitag, business for Priebisch. Harm Smidt leaned toward the law but turned to the sciences and engineering and wound up a partner in a firm dealing with environmental-impact studies...
...West German money supply. If spent, the freshly minted DMs will have the same effect on growth as a sizable tax cut. When this new demand hits a West German economy operating close to capacity, the Bundesbank will be keeping a wary eye on developments. Bundesbank president Karl Otto Pohl calls the 1-to-1 conversion "a generous offer that went to the limit of what is economically acceptable." But he believes inflation can be contained...
...just because Karl Malden won't be brought to overbear on this doesn't mean Amex considers it unimportant. "Membership Savings will be the basis for establishing a broader financial relationship with Cardmembers," reads an internal marketing piece. "In time, we plan to offer several savings and investment products" -- IRAs and annuities, for example. With millions of affluent cardholders, Amex can quickly accumulate tens of billions of dollars in deposits with nary a bank branch or broken ball-point...
With patterned tights all the rage, this should be the most colorful summer in a long time. The fall will see cashmere leggings (tights without a foot), in cable knits, wools and especially in velvet. Jean-Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld, French fans of tights, are emphasizing the leg. So is the hot young American designer, Isaac Mizrahi, who dismisses the '80s as a time of "boring, rote, dress-for-success looks with stock-tie blouses, flannel jackets and henny-looking long, drab skirts...