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...Since post-World War II agreements prevent Japan from contributing to world peace through military means, its primary objective is to strengthen Third World countries by promoting the study of economic development efforts, he said...
Early on, Kohl did nothing to assuage these fears. Instead, Kohl fanned the flames of controversy; his February statement that Germany might not respect the post-World War II borders of Poland set off a wave of anti-Kohl sentiment, which only subsided after Kohl recanted...
...Pulitzer four times and the Nobel Prize to boot -- the praise may merely be premature. In just over five years, since his first professionally produced play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, reached Broadway, Wilson has established himself as the richest theatrical voice to emerge in the U.S. since the post-World War II flowering of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Just as significant, he has transcended the categorization of "black" playwright to demonstrate that his stories, although consistently about black families and communities, speak to the entire U.S. culture...
Specifically, Randell said, the West should help Eastern European countries produce higher-quality goods in order to make them more competitive in the world market. Randell cited the post-World War II Marshall Plan--which funneled millions of American dollars into a devasted Europe--as an example of how the U.S. can help faltering economies elsewhere in the world...
...towns so much as a congeries of ghettos -- the city is already becoming a place where only the very rich, the very young and the very poor live. The middle class works in the city but doesn't live there. Those enormous central offices we have built in the post-World War II period are, I think, very largely going to be counterproductive. The clerical work will move out. Our largest single pool of labor in the years ahead will be older people and part-time employees, and they aren't going to commute four hours to work. This...