Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter has already made plans to discuss SALT and other matters with his main European allies on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Jan. 5 and 6. The meeting, which Carter described as "somewhat of a social affair," since wives will be along, will include French President Valéry Giscard ďEstaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister James Callaghan. Though there will be no formal agenda and no final communiqué, a Carter-Brezhnev summit would give the conferees plenty to talk about...
...from studying in Canada, greater affirmative action policies in the realm of education, and the elimination of unemployment in Canada through government creation of jobs. These issues, especially the demand for full employment, indicate a concrete student-worker alliance that may have great ramifications in Canada. In many West European nations? particularly Italy and France--it is this alliance that has effectively challenged the idea that capitalism is the best way to get things done. Of course, this alliance has sprung from the high unemployment among Canadian academics and the high number of college graduates who have been forced, upon...
More than 15 years after a battered old coin was discovered in an ancient Indian rubbish heap near the coastal town of Blue Hill, it was belatedly identified by scholars as a Norse artifact dating back to the 11th century-making it the oldest European object ever found in the U.S. What is more, the find reopened all the old arguments about who really discovered America: Columbus or some Viking predecessors...
...French-born Basque who looks and talks (in Gallic-flavored English) like the kind of smoothy who should be running a cosmetics empire. But he started out as an electric power salesman, trained as a manager in the ITT cauldron, and rose to head that conglomerate's European operations, a job that taught him about acquisitions, finance, and the making and marketing of just about anything. At Revlon, while continuing to broaden the product line and promoting some new merchandising ideas, Chairman Bergerac, now 46, talks a language that was long unfamiliar to the cosmetics trade. It is a lingo...
...satellite companies sold life insurance and made food products, auto parts and construction materials, among many other things?including a few cosmetics. Bergerac helped negotiate about 100 acquisitions of companies for ITT. In 1971, at the age of 39, he was promoted to the job of running all ITT European operations from a base in Brussels. By encouraging still more acquisitions and spurring the companies' internal growth, he doubled European sales during the next three years to $5 billion. He was a prime candidate to follow Geneen as head of ITT when Revson, who realized he was dying of cancer...