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...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, but the odor does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: And Now for Sprachvergnugen | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...most part, Trump has steadfastly denied his difficulties, perhaps observing a lesson from his own book. "The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it," Trump wrote in his 1987 best seller, The Art of the Deal. "That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you're dead." But Trump's arrogant business style is haunting him now that he needs understanding. "Trump's personality works against him," says a top investment banker. "His own behavior created a level of scrutiny about his judgment, his ability to pay and his 'high moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble with A Big T | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

Diane, it's 10:05 a.m., and I've just arrived in New York City. What a place! Just smell those skyscrapers. Had breakfast at a little deli on Ninth Avenue. Cheese Danish and a cup of coffee, black as a moonless night. Hit the spot. Now I'm looking for a place to stay -- clean place, reasonably priced. Can't find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Disappearing TV Audience | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...five-year civil war in the early 1980s drove farmers to abandon their land and livestock, swarms of once docile domestic pigs and their offspring returned to the wild, rooting up the earth in peasants' gardens and devouring cassava, sweet potato and groundnut crops. With their powerful sense of smell, vicious temperament and high birthrate -- sows can bear litters of up to 15 young four times a year -- the beasts are a formidable new enemy for local peasants. Moving mostly in darkness and traveling up to 20 miles a night, the wild pigs have cut local food production by half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda: Night of the Wild Pigs | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Officially, the ravages of pollution in Eastern Europe were classified information, Communism's dirtiest secret. For more than 40 years, as the devastation mounted, only a few officials kept track of the toll. The people could see, smell and sometimes choke on contaminated air and water. They could watch the grime accumulate on their homes and see the vegetation die. But they could not speak about it or protest too loudly, lest they be harassed as dangerous dissidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Where The Sky Stays Dark | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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