Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...conquering, ruling, often suppressing others. The nation-state, an arrangement that came into its own in the 16th century as the Holy Roman Empire began to disintegrate, sounded like a good idea at the time: people who spoke one language would band together under one flag within one set of boundaries. But such entities -- sovereign in their aspirations, anxieties and hatreds -- too often went to war against one another, sending fresh waves of emigrants fleeing across the Atlantic...
...remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn...
...terrorists. Honecker and a few senior officials may eventually stand trial, but the vast majority of party members seem unlikely to suffer much. For example, Diestel has hired back, as an act of "Christian charity," 12,000 former State Security employees who had been fired by a citizens' committee set up to dismantle the agency...
Roaming through the high life of Munich or standing insouciantly beside its spired city hall, the man known as Leo is king of the social jungle. The TV commentator on the Bavarian capital's Schickeria -- the chic and shallow set -- is brought to life twice a month on the ARD network by ANDREAS IK, 37, a onetime psychology student. Life's a peep show for Lukoschik, and his unorthodox interviews with the rich and notorious -- he once sat on a white stallion to interview a party girl bathing in mare's milk -- attract millions of viewers. Not to mention voyeurs...
...congressional committee rejected White House proposals and agreed to permit states suffering the effects of oil spills to set the amounts of fines and other cleanup charges...