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...virtues? For an English speaker, there is only one, but it is quite substantial: basic vocabulary. As linguistic cousins, German and English share a large stock of cognates, words that are spelled alike and mean the same thing -- for example, person, winter and arm. Plenty of words have only slight differences: if you're nervous in English, you're nervos in German. With a little imagination, one can find any number of common roots. Take, for example, the verb to smell: riechen, from the same root as the English reeks. The malodorousness does not exist in the German word...
...reason for the slight shift toward Pretoria is the skill with which De Klerk has managed his side of the contest with the A.N.C. Since his election last year to replace the autocratic P.W. Botha, he has done more to ease the country's internal conflict than all his predecessors combined. With the pace of change increasing, Mandela and the A.N.C. are in danger of losing the initiative...
...blocks away from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., a slight, bespectacled, gray-haired man sits motionless in a reclining chair in his study, staring vacantly into space. Paul MacCready is engaged in his most productive activity, daydreaming...
...majority of the banks also said they had cut back their lending to small and medium-size companies. For some firms, the impact has been relatively minor so far. A poll released last week by the National Federation of Independent Business, which has 2,300 members, reported only a slight increase in the difficulty of obtaining loans...
...laser, placed at the intersection of the pipes, will emit a beam that is split into two parts, each of which will bounce back and forth between suspended weights and finally return to the intersection. There the beams will be recombined, and a detector will examine them for slight distortions that will reveal whether movements of the weights have forced one light beam to travel as little as one ten-quadrillionth of a centimeter farther than the other, a likely signal that gravity waves have affected them...