Word: gerhard
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...That was the message in Berlin last week when German President Horst Köhler agreed to dissolve parliament, paving the way for a snap election, expected on Sept. 18. "The people should be able to decide the future policies of our country," Köhler said. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder will be pleased - he engineered the poll by deliberately losing a confidence vote in parliament on July 1 - but at least two parliamentary deputies plan to challenge Köhler's decision in the Constitutional Court. If the election does take place, conventional wisdom is that Schr...
...Franz Müntefering likened Blackstone and other private-equity groups to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies and devour all they can before moving on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they destroy," said Müntefering, who is chairman of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and who promised to fight against what he called this "anonymous, faceless" form of capitalism...
This fall, students interested in gender politics, the sociology of scienceâor just Larryâwill be able to indulge their interests in Sociology 163, âWomen and Science: Sociological Aspects,â taught by Lecturer on Sociology Gerhard Sonnert...
Buchloh is now finishing a monograph on the German painter Gerhard Richter, whom he has studied for two decades and whose reputation he has greatly advanced...
...European Parliament, which is elected by the people and therefore has the mandate, make decisions regarding the E.U. The only way the E.U. will work is to get rid of the Brussels bureaucrats and have a civil service that is responsible only to the elected government of Europe. Gerhard Heinzelmann Gravesend, England The E.U. constitution is dead, but it would be fatal for Europe if Brussels continued with business as usual. We don't need another constitutional convention with myriad special interests complicating the process. Let's have each member state provide a representative to a committee to produce...