Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...valuable time when he likes to think. Then he took his regular rubdown from a masseur who is also one of his bodyguards. Lunch was, as always, a bowl of soup. For nourishment during the day Sadat drinks liquids constantly: fruit juice, minted tea and a lightly carbonated European cola. A devout Muslim, he never touches liquor or wine...
...attract new deposits, banks have been giving away everything from toasters and TV sets to European vacations. Now the tiny Desert Empire Bank (assets: $8.5 million) near wealthy and exclusive Palm Springs, Calif., has come up with the most alluring bait perhaps considered so far: a $55,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow limousine for any customer who will sink $1 million into 6.25% certificates of deposit for six years. The bank will also throw in the price of the sales tax and license plates...
...dollar's autumn slide gained momentum, dealers began anxiously watching for signs that the U.S. was prepared to step in and buy up dollars to support their price. When news leaked out two weeks ago that U.S. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal had met secretly in Paris with European monetary officials, currency traders assumed that a dollar-propping agreement would be announced at last week's monthly meeting of central bankers in Basel, Switzerland. None was forth coming, and the selloff of dollars started anew. By midweek the herd instinct had taken hold, and in Switzerland the dollar...
...European-history scholar (out of Bryn Mawr and Harvard), she has been involved in academic life since her father Hajo Holborn, a history professor at Yale, brought the family to the U.S. from Germany when Hanna was four. She married a fellow history student, Charles Gray, taught at Chicago for eleven years, then was appointed a dean at nearby Northwestern in 1971 before moving on to Yale...
...Presidents as diplomat, adviser and troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The tall, courtly son of a Maryland Senator and Pulitzer-prizewinning author, Bruce had a Jeffersonian career-farmer, lawyer, author, state legislator, businessman, Army colonel, sportsman, art patron, raconteur and wine connoisseur. After running the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry Truman. A strong advocate of a united Europe, he scored a kind of diplomatic grand slam...