Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual, Japan was the most intransigent bargainer. It put up so many roadblocks that the Europeans were forced to withdraw trucks and electronic items from the list of goods that they had offered for concessions to everyone. Charged the European Community's Sir Roy Denman: "A massive Japanese [trade] surplus is difficult to accept if at the same time the Japanese market is not an open one and the Japanese exporters, like soldiers from a fortress, create havoc...
...rich assortment of fine European pastries and pies" ($1.75)--our night it included strawberry shortcake--just didn't make it either. Due to a combination of freezing and the wind chill factor from the perpetual spinning, most of the desserts arrived at the table ice cold--consider ordering them with your dinner to give them time to thaw...
Lathière hopes the Airbus will redress an imbalance that has long irritated Europeans. Says he: "Europe buys 25% of the world's planes, but as manufacturers we get only 2% of the business. The U.S. plane industry will not suffer if its share of the world sales declines somewhat to 75%." Despite the burst of business for Airbus, Boeing has received 229 orders and options for the 767 and the 757. Moreover, before it made its Airbus buy, Lufthansa placed a $1.2 billion order for 32 Boeing 737s and 24 options, the largest plane deal ever made...
Subaru is scarcely alone in using this loophole: not one of the 335,000 pickups imported last year was taxed at the full truck rate. The 25% levy, introduced by Congress in 1963 in retaliation for a European tax on American chickens, was originally designed to hit imports of the Volkswagen Transporter, which is no longer produced. Successive administrations have let the tariff go unenforced, and this is not likely to change, despite a General Accounting Office estimate that about $600 million in truck import taxes have been lost since 1971. Reason: U.S. automakers are playing the customs game alongside...
...change started with cubism and widely affected the European avantgarde. Its results range from the futurist sculpture of Italian artists like Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla to the radical experiments of the Russian constructivists, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Puni; from Alexander Archipenko's wall reliefs to Julio Gonzalez's iron constructions and Alexander Calder's fluttering mobiles. Artists as unlike as Naum Gabo and David Smith were affected by it. No sculptor interested in either ideal formal systems or new materials was immune to its promises, and its influence persists to this day. Sculpture had been solid since...