Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...animal-protection society arranged adoption by the Ahrndt family of Hannover. Alas, the German shepherd has turned out to be a pussycat. Instead of guarding against intruders, she welcomes anyone into the cottage of her owners. A mother as of March, Asta also seems homesick. She has yet to set paw into her master's Ford, but leaped happily into a visitor's East German- made Trabant and expected to be driven away...
...clear that the fall of the Berlin Wall was due not to strategic planning, but to a sudden loss of nerve. A single ambiguous sentence uttered at a press conference, a mere slip of the tongue, was enough to start an avalanche. The unification of Germany was set off not by grand design but by a blunder...
Effectively, the law means that those who have to work must cram their shopping into a few frantic hours in the evenings or on Saturday mornings. Planning a weekend dinner party? Best to have the menu set by Thursday night. That way you can spend the next day going from butcher to baker to candlestick maker, purchasing the ingredients. (Germans still prefer to shop the old- fashioned way, buying a few things at a time at a multitude of stores.) But don't forget the Mittagspause, the lunch break that most mom-and-pop stores dutifully observe...
...hotel there these days is greeted by an array of signs proclaiming the presence of representative offices of well-known Western banks. Those in East Berlin's Grand Hotel include the WestLB, Algemene Bank Nederland, Bayerische Landesbank and Salomon Brothers. Peter Dahne, WestLB's representative for the G.D.R., has set up offices in seven other G.D.R. cities, and will soon move into permanent quarters with a < staff of around 50, drawn initially from WestLB's West German employees. Says Dahne: "We expect to face the same competition here as in West Germany." That appears likely. Deutsche Bank will be opening...
...that to a law clerk who would then give me what we call a bench memo. If the case was assigned to me to write, that law clerk in all probability would submit in triple-space form a draft of an opinion that reflected the views I had already set forth. Before a draft opinion was circulated to the other Justices, all four of my law clerks would review it, and we would all work it over very carefully...