Word: nation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...united Germany would necessarily result in instability; it is not as though the two countries would attain critical mass if they were fused. Rather, the X factor in the debate, largely unmentionable among statesmen but deeply felt among their constituents, concerns the crimes and punishment of the German nation. Many Europeans, including most Soviets, would prefer to let the next generation, or even the one after that, test fully the proposition that 70 years of German expansionism, culminating in the horrors of Hitler, was an aberration...
...past decade has a lesson, it is that traditions die hard at the nation's oldest institution of higher learning. Even at Harvard, changes are inevitable, but not many and not often...
Shevardnadze already was scheduled to be in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday to sign a new trade and economic cooperation agreement with the 12-nation European Community. The accord will expand commercial ties between Moscow and prosperous Western Europe...
...Harvard icewomen came out firing. Only three-and-a-half minutes into the opening period, the Crimson had found the back of the net against the nation's best team...
During his 18-year tenure at BU, Silber and his outspoken conservative views have constantly drawn controversy, both on campus and around the nation...