Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...European leaders quickly applauded the move. An official in Bonn's finance ministry asserted: "At last Washington woke up. It's better late than never." Bundesbank President Otmar Emminger said that "the action should have a major stabilizing effect and put an end to speculative excesses...
...spilled about $18 billion into foreign markets. And a dollar excess, like a wheat excess, drives down the price. As TIME'S European economic correspondent, Friedel Ungeheuer, reports from Brussels: "No one is saying that the U.S. economy is not sound. It's probably the soundest around anywhere...
...West German marks or Swiss francs are worth more dollars to be sent back to the parent company in dividends, though this can be offset by the greater dollar operating costs abroad. Also, American-owned multinationals have been slowing down investment abroad. One reason is the sluggishness of European and Japanese economies. The drop of the dollar has added another reason, by increasing the amount of dollars that multinationals must spend to build, buy or expand foreign factories. Weakened American investment abroad prolongs the global economic stagnation that the U.S. wants to counteract...
Chaplin's naive, humanitarian, and decidedly leftist politics got him into trouble in the United States in the early Fifties, and when he refused to alter his stance he was denied re-entry into the country after a European vacation. Insulted, he purchased a villa in Switzerland, where he lived until his death last month at the age of 88. He rarely left his retreat, coming to America once, two years ago, to receive a special Academy Award, and going to England several years ago to be knighted...
...creation, and he achieved distinction in both. Born the son of poor German immigrants in South Boston, Langer was a self-made man who served as Coolidge professor from 1936 until his retirement in 1964. During those years he established an international reputation, both as a scholar of European and Middle Eastern history, and as an expert in military intelligence...