Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At the western edge of America, where the continent falls into the Pacific as it follows the sun, the coast has always seemed an image of Eden, a garden of earthly delights. "There is an island called California, on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Earthly Paradise...
America has perpetrated countless pop fads on Europe, so now the Continent is getting its revenge. They call it lambada, the trendiest dance since the hustle. A torrid thigh-to-thigh two-step that swept across Europe last year after being imported from Brazil by French music promoter Jean Karakos...
The weak yen has been a prime culprit in Japan's trouble, raising the threat of inflation and putting upward pressure on interest rates. The yen has sagged largely because of the quickening outflow of Japan's immense cash hoard to other countries, where Japanese investors have found investments more...
Not only the Poles but most of the Western European governments are demanding admission to the two-plus-four club as it becomes clear that the security of the entire Continent is under negotiation. Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek contends that a fait accompli will not be acceptable...
We are now, once again but without realizing it, in an immediate postwar period. The cold war was world war in every respect but one. It was a great struggle between two massive alliances conducted on every continent and at every level of struggle -- economic, political and military -- save one...