Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Avner Rothenberg, director of social education in Jerusalem, traces the problem to the structure of Israeli education, which is styled on the European model of a highly centralized system, with all control in the Ministry of Education. Elias Saba, senior lecturer at the Arab Teachers' College in Haifa, found the American contrast agreeable...
Arabs and Jews attend separate schools in Israel, and it is unlikely that the situation will change. But even among Jews there are divisions--those who settled in Palestine before the establishment of the state in 1948, the Oriental Jews, and the Eastern European Jews, each forming a distinct socio-economic caste. The problem of integrating these groups pales, however, in the face of the Boston school situation. "We now know," Orthal says, "that our problems are not that bad. Remember, we have Jews from 72 nations--but we are all Jews...
...last week. But the downpours came too late to undo the damage already suffered by farmers in northwestern France, Belgium, southern England and northern Italy. Only an estimated 92 million tons of grain, instead of the anticipated 108 million tons, will be harvested this year, says Petrus Lardinois, the European Economic Community's farm commissioner. The sugar-beet crop will probably total 9.5 million tons-1.5 million tons below expectations. Lacking fodder, many farmers are slaughtering part of their livestock herds. There is a beef glut right now-and the chance of a shortage next winter...
...nothing rational about the automobile industry. There is no other aspect of business that depends so much on psychology, prejudice and image"). Now the 44-year-old Lutz is moving into a new job: last week, he was appointed corporate vice president in charge of Ford's European truck operations. His assignment: to increase Ford's lagging share of the market...
...Other European volunteers in the Greek war of independence knew the splendor of their own certitudes, but they did not know how or why war was fought in this often grubby and backward land that they honored as the cradle of Western civilization. And, of course, they did not know how to speak modern Greek. But they went anyway, intending to help the gallant Hellenes free themselves from the corrupt and perfumed tyranny (actually a rather benign rule) of the Turkish Sultan...