Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expressed this view on repeated occasions in the mid-'80s, when great changes were taking place in socialist societies, primarily in the Soviet Union. In the leadership there was a majority, influenced by Honecker, Mittag and others, that opposed these international changes. You can imagine that as a man less than 50 at that time, faced with a General Secretary over 70, my views were not always accepted...
...man yesterday but boy, you oughta...
Virtually every man serves -- and serves and serves. Currently, all those who are able-bodied go through a 17-week training course when they are 20 years old and annual refresher courses and deployments of three weeks or more, depending on their rank, until they are 32, when the demands lessen a bit. For those who refuse to join up, the options are grim. Each year several hundred Swiss are convicted of refusing to serve, and many of them spend three to twelve months in jail...
...federal prosecutor named as possible suspects Christoph Seidler, 31, and Horst Meyer, 30, both believed to be R.A.F. commandos. A third man, as yet unnamed, is also a suspect...
...Herrhausen had aggressively begun to change the bank, the world's 20th largest, from an insular institution to a global financial power. Only last week he made a $1.4 billion takeover bid for the British merchant bank Morgan Grenfell Group PLC. Throughout his life, Herrhausen viewed himself as a man driven by destiny to lead West Germany to new heights as a world economic power. It was a mission that was brutally shattered on a street in Bad Homburg last Thursday morning...