Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whiteness is tinged with the dirty grey of Cleveland's heavily industrialized flats; the Cuyahoga River, which cuts across the district, caught on fire several years ago because it was so heavily polluted with industrial waste. The population of this lower-middle-class urban stretch is predominantly of eastern European ancestry--Polish, German, Czech, Hungarian, plus some Irish and Italians--and roughly 75 per cent Catholic...
...should also be placed on record that the attempt to start an international organization last year did not fail through lack of funds, but rather through a majority feeling that such an organization was unnecessary. Its supporters were almost exclusively non-European women, who have this year established their own international women's group...
...dimensional plastic perfection," carped the Guardian. Said the critic from the Daily Mirror: "The lady has no depth." Maybe not, but audiences bought up every ticket for the singer's three-day London engagement, and six more concerts have been added at the completion of her 19-city European tour. Even in the plastic version, soul sells...
Another difficulty: the U.S. insists that its tariff-cutting formula be applied to agriculture as well as factory products so that American farmers can sell more food in the EEC. The Europeans consider their protectionist Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) a cornerstone of European unity and are reluctant to tamper with it. Even so, some sort of basic agreement on a tariff-cutting formula should be possible by this fall...
Though East Coast catches certainly should increase somewhat, that euphoria seems exaggerated. Some 63% of the 6.5 billion lbs. of fish that Americans eat each year is imported, and U.S. fishermen will not automatically inherit that share. Many of the fish sold in the U.S. are caught by European vessels in the North Atlantic, outside even the 200-mile limit and well beyond the reach of American ships. Within the 200-mile zone, there is a serious question of how many fish remain to be caught by anybody...