Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...likely SPD candidate for Chancellor, Saarland governor Oskar Lafontaine, says flatly, "Kohl is wrong if he thinks Germany can stay in NATO." Lafontaine favors a European defense system in a "United States of Europe." That kind of talk shocks Washington, and the Bush Administration has decided to put its weight behind Kohl and his commitment to the Atlantic Alliance. Even in Washington, however, where long-term planning covers two or three years at most, policymakers recognize the need to design a new security framework in Europe...
...death, with all the guilt and recrimination that entails. A state attorney accused 87-year-old Ruth Hoffmeister of wanting to starve her husband to death. Every evening for the past six years, Ruth has spoon-fed her husband Edward, who has Alzheimer's disease. When he began losing weight, their Pompano Beach, Fla., nursing home would have been obliged by state regulations to force-feed him through a tube. Ruth protested the bureaucratic intrusion. "There is nothing so important to an Alzheimer's patient," she insisted, "as a familiar touch and a familiar voice." She went to court...
Admittedly, the payback is yet to come; Kohl's chauvinistic propensity to go it alone has continued unabated. But by publicly ignoring the Chancellor's diplomatic free-lancing, Bush and Baker hope for greater influence down the road. Throwing America's weight around, they reason, could only make the transition to a Europe inevitably dominated by a united Germany even more difficult to manage. In another time, a similar posture was called appeasement. So far, at least, the Bush-Baker policy can be viewed as smart politics, as another effort -- to borrow Baker's words -- toward trying to get allies...
...Pity the weight-conscious health nut who craves a peanut butter sandwich: Skippy peanut butter claims to have "less sugar than other leading national brands," then fails to list how much it has. Wonder Light white bread trumpets "no cholesterol," but few breads these days have cholesterol, not even Taystee Butter Top wheat bread or Thomas' English muffins -- and neither of them makes such claims. And how can Colombo Nonfat Lite Yoghurt be nonfat when its label lists "less than...
Also well-played, though a little stereotypically, is the minor character of Melchior the merchant (Stephen Rosenthal). Rosenthal looks and sounds as if he came straight out of a Brighton Beach kosher deli, and carries a lot of comic weight...