Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giving it the largest majority enjoyed by any party in any German state assembly. Since then, to demonstrate that he can draw crowds outside his rural, conservative and Roman Catholic bailiwick in Bavaria, he has barnstormed into Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and even the working-class, traditionally left-leaning Ruhr. This week Strauss flies off to Peking-at the invitation of the Chinese-to re-establish his credentials in foreign affairs...
...like Britain and France have been brought to Rotterdam, while The Netherlands' usual share of Arab petroleum has been sent elsewhere. The Arabs themselves have permitted the oil companies to off-load some Arab oil in Rotterdam-if its ultimate destination is Belgium or West Germany's Ruhr Valley, both connected to the Dutch port by pipeline. The result, says a Rotterdam municipal official, is that "the embargo could continue indefinitely and it would not make any difference...
...sense, the East German Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) is even more miraculous than the one accomplished by West Germany. The end of World War II left the West with the mines and factories of the Ruhr, an industrial base that had been only partly destroyed by British and American bombs. The East got the fields and forests of northeast Prussia and Saxony. Instead of standing for the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, the East Germans joked, the initials D.D.R. stood for Der Doofe Rest-"the stupid leftovers...
Other states have more dramatic attractions, of course. To be in Ely or St. Cloud or even Minneapolis on a Saturday night and looking for excitement is to be conscious that nights are for sleeping. But there is something in the verdict of Chuck Ruhr: "California is the flashy blonde you like to take out once or twice. Minnesota is the girl you want to marry...
...Chuck Ruhr, 36, owner of a Minneapolis ad agency, lives a long commute?by Minneapolis standards?from his office. But he can make the 25 miles of freeway in 30 or 40 minutes, likes to point out that within an hour after leaving work, he can be sitting on his pontoon boat in the middle of White Bear Lake, enjoying a drink and watching the sun go down. He and his wife and two children live in a 1912-vintage five-bedroom house on the shores of the lake, with their own beach and dock. His wife's optometry business...