Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women walk their children through town and say "hi" to everyone they meet. Men gather in the evening on a porch and talk. Children ride their bicycles up and down the dirt roads. Though I can not accept their values, I envy their sense of community. And I can thank them for letting me--briefly--into their lives...
...extra change on your next trip. Nabisco is testing devices that dispense free samples with the pull of a lever. The Nabisco Samplers hand out a small box of a new product like Graham Bites, along with a coupon toward the purchase of a full-size package and a thank-you from a synthesized voice...
...concedes that the job is nearly hopeless. ND's power in the past was based on its status as a party organ. "The circulation was artificially high in the old days," Oschmann says. "It was thought 'fit' to subscribe to Neues Deutschland even if it was never read. That, thank God, is no longer the case...
...this, thank the Ladenschlussgesetz. Basically, shop hours are 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. On the first Saturday of every month -- "langer Samstag," or long Saturday -- they may stay open all day, although they don't have to. Sundays, almost everything is closed. In East Germany the hours are more liberal but, of course, there hasn't been much to buy in the past...
...really a way to say `thank you' to the United States," said Buschmann. He noted that the grant was announced on the same day that West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl delivered Harvard's Commencement address...