Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual event has increasingly attracted more and more foreign competitiors, said Mike Donnellan, a regatta official. "This is particularly true with respect to Eastern Bloc countries," Donnellan added...
...only are the east's living standards higher than ever, and rising, but there are fewer foreigners there now than before unification. Despite the influx of people seeking asylum, the east has seen the departure of most of the roughly 191,000 guest workers and students from the communist bloc and the Third World, and the number of foreigners in the region has fallen below 30,000. Nonetheless, with unemployment and underemployment at 28% in the east, food costs multiplying and rents more than quadrupling, many Germans see asylum seekers as a threat to economic security...
Ironically, 1992 may turn out to be an annus mirabilis for Europe, once the center of colonial empires. The new freedoms in Eastern Europe, the easing of hostile pressures from the Soviet bloc and the European Community's economic integration in 1992 may bring life back to the source of Western energy. The E.C. itself comes from a realization that these old countries must cope with postimperial realities. If there is a new world order, this realism should be its basis...
...vaunted politics of cooperation would be sorely tested. Bildt will need at least the tacit support of the new right-wing protest party, New Democracy, which won 25 seats by advocating curbs on immigration and cuts in foreign aid -- policies that are anathema to the rest of the nonsocialist bloc and to the socialists as well. Even then, he will face the daunting task of cutting taxes and government spending while not obliging his countrymen to give up too many of their customary benefits too soon...
...should be one of beginnings. Old alliances and concepts of security, conceived in the cold war, cry out for redefinition to cope with new or resurgent threats, like nationalism. For their own good, the industrialized democracies have to mount an all-out campaign to help rebuild the shattered Soviet bloc into a sturdy component of a peaceful, prosperous, free-trading international order. For its part, the U.S. must formulate a post-cold war agenda that will keep it fully engaged abroad even as it attends to its problems at home...