Word: westing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Germany itself might challenge that. Even without reunification or major changes in the present alliance system, West Germany is set to become the overwhelming economic power of Middle Europe. It is already the most important Western trading partner of all seven Warsaw Pact countries. And the slow disintegration of Comecon, the Moscow-based council that brokers East bloc trade, coupled with Eastern Europe's desperate need for capital and expertise, will open up enormous new economic opportunities that West Germany is poised -- financially, geographically and politically -- to exploit. "Between the two superpowers, there shall be a union of European states...
...reclaim former territory, one of many touchy issues that will be raised as the old order in Europe breaks down. Formal reunification may still be some way off. But each demonstration, each improvised banner calling for freedom and each East German who turns up seeking asylum at the West German embassy in Prague is already bringing a divided nation closer together...
...industrial equipment and shipped it back to the Soviet Union. In Eastern Europe not only did Soviet troops remain in large numbers, but Communists brutally subverted political parties and seized control of national police and military organizations to ring down the Iron Curtain. At the time, the war-weary West was in no mood to react...
Critics assailed Yalta as a sellout. Even George Kennan, then a top State Department official, denounced the West's refusal "to name any limit for Russian expansion and Russian responsibilities." But Charles Bohlen, assistant to the Secretary of State and one of the designers of the deal, called such criticism naive. Neither Britain nor the U.S. had any way to coerce Stalin, he argued, and "either our pals intend to limit themselves or they...
...American commitment to quality comes at a time when competitive challenges from abroad are growing rapidly and more and more foreign-owned plants are being based in the U.S. In the 1990s such competitors as Japan and West Germany will be joined by strong new rivals from much of Asia, from a more muscular European Community and from such Latin American countries as Mexico and Brazil...