Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pouring into West Germany through Hungary and Czechoslovakia at rates that last week reached 300 an hour. Most are between the ages of 20 and 40, and their departure has left behind a worsening labor shortage. Last week East German soldiers had to be pressed into civilian duty to keep trams, trains and buses running...
Much will depend, of course, on whether, and how soon, Krenz delivers on his rhetoric of freedom. The conviction that they will be able to decide their future could indeed keep at home most East Germans who are now tempted to flee; it is difficult to see anything else that might. Until the opening of the Wall, however, Krenz's reformist inclinations had seemed ambiguous. For many years he had been a faithful follower of Honecker's, and as recently as September defended the Chinese government's bloody suppression of pro- democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. His conversion...
...main course, it is just the appetizer," proclaimed Jens Reich, a molecular biologist and leader of New Forum, the major dissident organization. Founded only in September, it claims 200,000 adherents and has just been recognized by the government, which originally declared it illegal. The opposition pledged to keep up the pressure for a free press, free elections and a new constitution stripped of the clause granting the Communist Party a monopoly on power...
...hedging strategy under which you buy and sell related securities at the same time. You lose on one and gain on the other, but if you've done the math right, you'll usually lose a little less than you gain. Yippee! But you've got to keep your transaction costs low and, of course, not get caught with a taxable gain on one half of the hedge without realizing your loss on the other half. It was to avoid that hitch, basically, that Princeton/Newport entered into understandings with Drexel Burnham Lambert and other firms to make these tax sales...
Stieglitz finally married his mistress in 1924. But several years later, he became infatuated with a younger woman. A series of domestic and professional skirmishes followed; O'Keeffe suffered a breakdown and stopped painting. It was two years before she saw a way out: "If I can keep my courage and leave Stieglitz," she told a friend, "I plan to go West...