Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Westerners in Shaba and the province's citizens have vivid, unpleasant memories of the last incursion. Says one European professional who befriended the tigers while living under their 1977 occupation: "They said this would be another Viet Nam. They told us frankly they were not secessionists but an army of liberation whose aim was to take over the whole of Zaïre. All of us were told that if we were still here when they returned, it would be the end of us. We would then be considered pro-Mobutu. Last year when the guerrillas came...
Orlov's "crime," in the Kremlin's eyes, was his role in organizing a Moscow committee to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord on European Security and Cooperation. The committee prepared a number of documents, petitions and open addresses charging that "many hundreds" of Soviet citizens were "languishing in prisons and camps [for] political, ethical and religious beliefs." Free emigration and reunification of families, according to Orlov's group, were still being severely hampered, even though these rights were endorsed by the Helsinki accord. Introducing these reports as evidence...
...foreign investors eager to take it off his hands for a top price. The $100 million Atlanta Center office and hotel complex was begun in 1973 with a $10 million participation by Kuwaiti investors; the Kuwaitis have now bought out their American partners. Two weeks ago, a consortium of European banks paid $62.5 million for one-half ownership of Houston's tallest building, a 50-story office tower at One Shell Plaza, and the 29-story Two Shell Plaza...
...training programs, corporate tax deferment plans that stretch out for years and, of course, the lure of the vast American market, which is bigger and faster growing than all of the Common Market. Business people are also impressed by lower labor costs in the U.S. than in many European countries. In West Germany, for instance, wage costs are about the same as in the U.S., but employer contributions to pension, health and other social insurance programs are far steeper...
Specialists in medieval studies from the Departments of History, Fine Arts, Sociology and several European languages are now approaching the age of 66, when they must choose between teaching a half-load of courses for four years, or a full-load for two years...