Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THE BOTTOM LINE: The staid European cinema comes alive with an epic as big and mysterious as the Continent.
It all marks the end of the most enduring business-labor armistice in Europe, a social contract that allowed Germany to achieve its postwar miracle of industrial prosperity. Perhaps that compact of mutual benefit can be restored eventually. Nevertheless, the size of the wage hikes resulting from the strike will...
And what of race? Los Angeles is rapidly becoming a city of multiple ghettos. The blacks are in their place, the whites in theirs. The Vietnamese are here, the Koreans over there, the Japanese in the middle. The Salvadorans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans and other Latin Americans may all be Hispanic, but...
Why does the author choose to describe quano as he does, rather than mention its important role in meeting increased demand for agricultural production? Meanwhile, the author fails to mention that Peru was the first world exporter of fish meal in the 1960s and '70s, when considerable foreign investment took...
Personal contacts, and larger ones, are slowly beginning to make a difference to the island continent's overall sense of isolation. Despite Australians' fabled reluctance to learn a foreign language, 65,000 are now studying Japanese, more students than in any other country outside Japan, save South Korea and China...