Word: kohl
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...market-oriented policies. Still, the chancellorship is a major accomplishment for the daughter of a Lutheran pastor raised in East Germany. She had studied physics and taken a teaching post, only entering politics at the time of German reunification. Merkel, once a prot?g?e of longtime Christian Democrat chancellor Helmut Kohl, is widely respected for her intelligence and her toughness in party negotiations, qualities that were on display over the past few weeks as she stuck to her guns despite criticism of her campaign performance. That toughness will be further tested in the coming weeks as Germany seeks to forge...
...mass destruction were hidden in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.) Schröder was not an active '68er. But he too absorbed the values of the protesters and their hunger for social justice. His ready grin and populist touch were for many young Germans a welcome relief from Helmut Kohl, his predecessor as Chancellor, whose fondness for woollen sweaters and oompah brass bands reminded many of a past their parents and grandparents preferred not to discuss. Schröder's ease in front of the camera and on the stump helped his party recoup a seven-point deficit in opinion polls...
Feingold, like Leahy and Kohl, said that he had based his vote on Roberts’ credentials and on his claim that he is “not an ideologue...
Joining the Republican bloc were Senators Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, both of Wisconsin, as well as Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the committee’s ranking member...
Merkel received her introduction to Western politics when Helmut Kohl, Germany's larger-than-life Chancellor, tapped her as Minister for Women and Youth for his Cabinet in 1991. She established herself as both ambitious and willing to learn, outmaneuvering a succession of male colleagues to take the party leadership in 2000. "She's criticized for being timid," says political scientist Gerd Langguth, her biographer, "but she's a political panther...