Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians have an expression, "To send the bells a-pealing without consulting the church calendar." The article "Spirit of Helsinki, Where Are You?" [Jan. 24] is a fitting illustration of that phrase because it mourns the "spirit of Helsinki" and alleges that the East European countries are infringing the provisions of the agreement. I entertain grave doubts concerning the knowledge of the article's authors of that act and their right to judge who fulfills it and who does...
...program for developing fast-breeder reactors. Not content with a comfortable financial settlement, Traube demanded a federal investigation and instead received a letter exonerating him of any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, he was unable to regain his job-or a position that he particularly wanted with JET, the inter-European nuclear power project. There the matter stood until a source every bit as mysterious as the fabled "Deep Throat" of Watergate turned over the entire Verfassungsschutz file on Traube to Der Spiegel...
Equally serious, the British Leyland workers are failing to measure up to guidelines for productivity increases that have been set by the government as a prerequisite for additional investment in British Leyland. In general the productivity of European workers is substantially lower than that of their U.S. counterparts at the workbench or assembly line. Though European growth rates in output per man-hour are often increasing at a faster rate than those in the U.S., Europe's best worker, who happens to be French, produces only 80.6% as much as a U.S. worker. The British worker, who is Europe...
...done, the Saudis signed a $7.5 billion contract with the Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco), which eventually intends to export gas to the U.S. Iran is sinking $6 billion into liquefaction plants and a fleet of 35 LNG carriers to ship gas to its American and European markets beginning...
...exporter, is phasing out shipments to other countries in an effort to conserve its supplies. Britain, too, intends to hold on to most of the gas that it is beginning to pump from underneath the North Sea. Indeed, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European demand is already outstripping its reserves. By 1985, the organization estimates, European gas imports from Iran, Algeria, the Soviet Union and elsewhere will total almost 3 trillion cu. ft. a year, six times the 1975 figure...