Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little as he may have sought the distinction, no man in recent years has done so much to stimulate European progress as Gamal Abdel Nasser. Living luxuriously on the memory of the day when Britain and Western Europe between them produced three-quarters of the world's industrial energy, most Europeans complacently accepted the fact that Britain must import 12% of her total energy requirements and Western Europe nearly a quarter. But when Egypt's Nasser seized the Suez, he forced all Europe to face up to the significance of these imports: Europe had lost her industrial independence...
Named after the Dutch pathologist who first described it, the disease is caused by a fungus, Ceratostomella ulmi, which is introduced into the trees by an unattractive European elm bark beetle, Scolytus multistriatus. Toxins and gummosis produced by the fungus in the tree's water-conducting vessels may kill it in six months. Once disease is detected, death may be retarded, somewhat as in cancer, by removing more and more of the affected parts. Widespread use of preventative measures, such as burning old or dying trees to kill the beetles, or spraying and feeding the trees to discourage inhabitation, have...
...disease has a rather exotic origin; it apparently began somewhere in the Far East, and travelling West, enjoyed moderate success with European varieties of elm. It was not until 1919, however, that Cerastomella really caught hold; beetles carried to this country on elm logs to be used for furniture veneer somehow escaped, and carried the fungus to the Elysian Fields of Unius americana. Travelling up the Connecticut River Valley into New England, and westward as far as the Mississippi, the beetle-fungus team has outrun its pursuers, cutting a determined swath which pathologists estimate will exterminate most of the genus...
Berman is in Europe on a sabbatical leave to continue work he has been doing for several years on the structure of Soviet and East European trade. From his home base at Geneva, Switzerland, he has taken trips to Yugoslavia and France, before going to Russia several weeks ago. In Moscow, Berman has conferred with several Ministry of Justice officials...
Tulla does use "chemex" percolators, however, besides the venerable copper arrangement, through which she filters the basic grind for many of her blends. "Salesmen have offered me modern replacements," she notes, "but I wouldn't change it. Tulla herself is a product of European coffee hospitality, and Cook tries to maintain the "civilized tradition" of the European coffee houses...