Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western European investment in the U.S., as measured by Government figures, has grown by almost $9 billion since 1971, to $19 billion today. While those longtime investors in America, the British, Canadians and Dutch, have steadily increased their stake, the French, Germans and Swedes have been pumping funds across the Atlantic in truly spectacular fashion. In six years, German investment has increased by 138%, to $1.9 billion; the Swedes have tripled their investment, and the French have raised theirs by almost 470%. Operating through businesses they control or family investment companies, such influential individuals as France's Baron...
Flight Talk. The phenomenon reflects both cold economics and some fevered concern about political and social malaise abroad. Canadians fret about increasing tensions between the French-and English-speaking communities. Middle Easterners are apprehensive about what they see as political and economic drift in the European countries, where they have traditionally salted away their wealth. Says Dr. Nazmi Abdel Hamid, former governor of Egypt's Central Bank and now an adviser to the Arab-European Bank: "Increasingly...
...that matter, do the Europeans themselves. American officials do not like the term, notes Paul Baudler of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Frankfurt, "but if you talk to a German banker, he'll talk about 'flight capital.' " A long list of gloomy economic realities -slumping stock values on European exchanges, high unemployment rates, the rise of left-wing parties and the inability of liberal, middle-of-the-road governments to deal effectively with these problems-has prompted a chorus of Spenglerian gloom from European business leaders...
...restaurant, being rebuilt. Ten bars, three open 24 hr. Supermarket-like duty-free shops selling wide range of goods. Refinements include animal hostel, dramatic society that rehearses and performs in the airport's underground chapel, a legendary bowler-hatted ghost who supposedly turns up in emergencies. Minihospital. European Terminal 2 is receiving $20 million facelift. Overall: friendly, frumpish...
...more lonely, better-balanced mad mind than mine." It was the mind of an exile imprisoned in memories of a culture swept away by revolution and war. Born April 23, 1899, into an intellectual, upper-class St. Petersburg family, Nabokov enjoyed the benefits of wealth, position and a Western European education. English was his first language, taught by an English nanny. French and Russian were learned, as he said, "at my nurses' knees-two nurses, four knees." His mother encouraged his early poetic efforts, and his father, a distinguished liberal jurist during the final reactionary years of imperial Russia...