Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month for Enrico Berlinguer and his Italian Communist Party. Losing ground for the first time since World War II, the P.C.I, saw its popular vote slip by 4% in the June 3 general elections; a week later the party dropped another 750,000 votes in elections for the new European Parliament. The downward trend continued last week in Berlinguer's native Sardinia, where the party polled less than 30% in a regional election. Stunned by these setbacks, the Communists are entering a phase of soul searching and reappraisal...
...contains two halls whose flat roofs were supported by 15 square columns; the altar in the larger room shows traces of ash. No one knows who the builders were, what they were burning or where they ultimately went. (One theory: they may have been Aryans, who spoke an Indo-European language and who later decamped to India.) Says Sarianidi: "The temple may yet tell us something about those people, who otherwise have left nothing behind but shards of painted pottery...
Japan and the Western European countries were slow to bounce back from the recession and suffered through a lingering period of sluggish production and relatively high unemployment. By contrast, the U.S. economy rebounded fairly smartly: production picked up, and joblessness fell from its 1975 peak of 8.9% to the current 5.8%. But the U.S.'s solo recovery brought problems. Prosperity sucked in imports, but American exporters found little demand for their goods abroad. Then, too, the nation's dependence on ever more costly foreign fuel increased, lifting the U.S. oil import bill to boggling heights-$40 billion last...
West Germany. The Germans' economy is, as usual, in better shape than any of their European neighbors'. The big worry, also as usual, is rising inflation: though prices increased a mere 2.6% in 1978, inflation so far this year has been running at an annual rate of 7.4%, a figure that might be cheered elsewhere but is regarded with concern in this inflation-phobic nation. German exports are surging and now account for fully 12% of total world trade-the same...
...with 125 passengers aboard lifted off from Zurich's Kloten airport for a flight that ended, uneventfully, 4% hours later in Tel Aviv. Almost simultaneously, many more of the U.S.-built, tri-engine wide-bodies were taxiing to runways all over Europe. By week's end 13 European lines, including such prestigious carriers as Lufthansa, SAS, Alitalia and KLM, had put their 58 DC-10s back into the air. Though their decision brought cheers from the plane's beleaguered manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas, it was a blow to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. After the May 25 Chicago...