Word: european
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find "qualified" teachers to fill the department's gaps, he said. He did not mention, however, the circumstances with which Harvard upperclassmen are sadly familiar--the University's neglect of its students' educations. This is not the first time history students have been left stranded; a few years ago European history concentrators found themselves in the same bind as this year's American history students...
...tactless, the secret dream of every European was, one, to avoid a nuclear war but, secondly, if there had to be a nuclear war, to have it conducted over their heads by the strategic forces of the United States and the Soviet Union...
...coming from oil-rich Arabs, who were trading incognito through German and Swiss banks and brokers. Like goldbugs everywhere, the Middle Eastern investors were anxious over political uncertainties, global inflation and the fluctuating fortunes of the dollar, though it had dropped only slightly by week's end. European investors as well were eagerly acquiring gold because energy-induced inflation has been weakening the value of even their own "hard" currencies. A binge of panic buying by Southeast Asian investors, worried about reports of heightened tensions between China and Viet Nam, further pushed up demand. Many big U.S. investors were...
...Albans near London, and is known for his teaching, administrative and diplomatic skills. He is also a High Churchman who has taken a definite stand on the most emotional issue in worldwide Anglicanism: he opposes the ordination of women as priests, at least in England. Trevor Beeson, European correspondent of America's liberal Christian Century, wrote of Runcie's view, "It is difficult to see how leadership of the Church of England and of the Anglican Communion can be exercised from such a position throughout the 1980s...
...spite of Breaking Away's simple trappings, it is not without substantial themes; and the rivalry between the college and the townies is the culmination of a class conflict Yates has built up carefully throughout the film. Americans, he says, are as class-conscious as their European counterparts, but the manifestations are more complex and insidious than simply the blueness of one's blood...