Word: alessandro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market rather than invest the money required to meet its specifications. Maserati, which sends half of its output to the U.S., is waiting to see if its product has passed a pollution test in California, a state with the most stringent environmental rules in the U.S. Maserati Managing Director Alessandro De Tomaso is confident that his car will be approved because of a costly new engine that reduces pollution and improves gas consumption-but that also cuts Maserati's vaunted vroooom...
...figures of the Venetian cinquecento-Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto-and the effervescent grandeur of the Tiepolos in the 18th century. Even today, when scholarship and the art market have opened every mass grave in search of something to write about and sell, the names of painters like Damiano Mazza or Alessandro Turchi do not make the pulse race...
Cossiga's government, in fact, was virtually foisted on the politicians by President Alessandro Pertini, 82. Exasperated by the failure of three successive Premiers-designate,* he first threatened to go on television to denounce the party leaders. Then, after a quick shuffle of new names, he picked Cossiga as one on whom all parties could agree. As surprised as anyone else, Cossiga was packing his bag for a boating weekend with his family when the call came from Christian Democratic Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini: "Get ready. It's your turn...
...Corporation has approved the appointment of Alessandro Pizzorno, professor of Sociology at the University of Milan in Italy, as Krupp Professor of European Studies, a tenured position vacant for the past four years...
Italy's President Alessandro Pertini had dissolved parliament while the congress was in session, thereby turning it into a rousing pre-campaign rally. In late spring, Italians will go to the polls to elect a new parliament from which will come the country's 42nd government since the overthrow of Mussolini 36 years ago. In effect, Berlinguer has declared that the elections-which take place two years ahead of schedule-will be a referendum on whether or not the Communists should be included in a coalition of "democratic unity...