Word: reiche
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...avoid cuts or further cuts, something they haven't had to do in a decade. "The New Economy makes human capital the most important asset, yet paradoxically companies are finding they can't afford the fixed cost of large payrolls in turbulent times," says former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, author of The Future of Success (Knopf...
...first sight, the Bush team does not make us feel the same way. Don Imus once likened Clinton's cabinet to the bar crowd in Star Wars (think Janet Reno, Robert Reich and Donna Shalala). While not intending to be complimentary (seeing as how several members of said bar crowd are not technically human), the description fits. We can envision one of Clinton appointees and immediately laugh, cry or just plain gawk...
...will never welcome us to Janet Reno's Dance Party and tell us to "Stop moshing!" In fact, Ashcroft is so conservative that he refused to dance at his own gubernatorial inaugural ball in Missouri. Labor Secretary Chao can see over a podium. Clinton's former Labor Secretary Robert Reich was so short that he had to sit on a table...
...that can often distort their meaning in the popular imagination. Ask American high school kids today about the reasons for World War II, and they'll probably tell you it had something to do with Hitler and the Jews. (In fact, the fate of the Jews under the Third Reich had no bearing whatsoever on the strategic decision-making of both Hitler and his Allied foes throughout...
Suddenly, Wilson's narrative jumps away from this unhappy family and back to 1941 Berlin, where an industrialist named Klaus Felsen is being persuaded, none too gently, to abandon his railroad-coupling factory and take on an important assignment for the Nazis. The Third Reich needs vast amounts of wolfram, i.e., tungsten, to use as an alloy in solid-core ammunition, essential for tank warfare, and the present supply from China will cease once Hitler breaks his nonaggression pact with Stalin. Portugal has wolfram, and Felsen speaks Portuguese, a memento from his past affair with a Brazilian woman. Ergo, Felsen...