Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One of these fields, African Studies, stands as a case in point. Although the African continent contains more than 40 countries and is the origin of countless aspects of American culture, the field remains largely neglected at Harvard. Interestingly enough, Africa--unlike Eastern Europe, for instance--holds little opportunity for...
More specifically, the Cinderella company is GM Europe, a Zurich-based subsidiary that makes and sells 1.5 million West German-designed cars a year bearing the nameplates Vauxhall in the United Kingdom and Opel on the Continent. Last year GM Europe built fewer than half as many passenger cars as...
GM Europe may not always have it so good. The company's managers express serious concern about growing competition from Japanese car companies, which are now gearing up major "transplant" factories as they did in the U.S. during the past decade. Auto analysts say the Japanese market share on the...
Perhaps most important, Gorbachev said he would agree to limit conventional forces in Europe on both sides to the 195,000 troops that Bush had proposed a week earlier, but with a key difference. Bush's plan would have allowed the U.S. to keep an additional 30,000 soldiers on...
In his years away, apartheid has acquired a more presentable face. The humiliating restrictions of petty apartheid have largely faded away. A sizable black middle class has sprung up, bringing with it consumer power that has not escaped the notice of white merchants. "Buppies" live in handsome Soweto neighborhoods like...