Word: european
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...England by John Wesley, a highway preacher who challenged the antireligious skepticism of the Enlightenment by stressing austere living and personal salvation. The precursors of the Evangelical United Brethren sprang from a similar revivalist movement in Germany, and were popularly called "German Methodists." Transplanted to colonial America by early European immigrants, the two movements remained on friendly terms, their preachers often collaborating in frontier revival meetings. Merger had been proposed twice before but had been defeated by language and cultural differences...
Bush Royalties. Today, at least eight out of ten roses bought in any flower shop in Western Europe are Meilland creations. In the U.S., Meilland roses have earned ten awards at the annual All-America Rose Selections, while no other European firm has ever won twice...
...traveled 15,000 miles cross-country in a secondhand car and studied the American rose industry-from breeding to selling. When Meilland went home, he became the first in Europe to use color plates in his catalogues and promote sales campaigns with colored posters He also fought persistently for European patent laws that would protect his new plants. Until his lobbying achieved success all over the Continent, his best products were pirated by competitors Today, with the law behind it, the Meilland is the top rose of the world...
Juan Carlos, who is considerably more conservative than his father, would not last more than three months, Ridruejo contends. Don Carlos, however, a potentially constitutional monarch, would be able to deal with the Left, Ridruejo believes, and thereby retain power long enough to bring Spain into the modern European community...
...West European economies, to be sure, are so intimately tied to West Germany. Italy had its own inflation problems in 1964, which were cured by stringent government measures. Since then, Italy's economy has expanded steadily; last year it reached a growth rate of 5.9%. Still, there are potential problems. For one thing, Italian labor is being lured to other countries, creating shortages at home that will tend to push up wages. Rising private consumption is expected to exert a similar pressure on prices. And so far, at least, the government, which faces an election late this year...