Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airline, and copper and steel industries. The nation's balance of payments deficit exceeds $5.5 billion. To pay for an across-the-board wage increase for at least 1 million workers, and for subsidized housing and other social projects, the Shah has canceled $7 billion worth of American and European military orders, including the controversial U.S. AWAC airborne warning system. He is also scrapping plans to build 20 nuclear plants, a modern railroad and a subway system for Tehran...
Washington also could help all farmers?and the world?by pushing agricultural exports even harder. For example, U.S. negotiators at the world trade talks in Geneva might insist that the nation will do nothing to open the U.S. market wider to European and Japanese goods unless industrialized nations let in more American-grown food. The Government might also expand its aid?$10 million this year ?to farmers who organize cooperative groups that develop foreign markets. One tempting target: China, which has just begun to buy U.S. meat and grain and could use more. Carter has signed...
...sure, epicures complain rightly that the bland taste of American fruits and vegetables cannot compare with the flavor of much produce delivered to European tables. In the U.S., food must be refrigerated, preserved and shipped across continental distances, and the varieties suitable to mechanical planting and harvesting often are not as tasty as those cultivated lovingly by hand (some people cannot discover any taste at all in cloned strawberries). But agricultural mass production has a benefit more important to most people: it keeps costs down. High as retail food prices have gone, food accounts for only 23% of all private...
...energetic manufacturers of Japan. U.S. food exports would be higher still were it not for a variety of barriers: outrageous quotas that keep Japanese consumers from buying as much U.S. beef and fruit as they would like, variable tariffs that hold the prices of American foodstuffs in the European Community above those of locally grown items, and the inability of the hungry underdeveloped nations to scrape up enough cash to buy more U.S. meat and grain...
Dean Rosovsky, a former student and Gerschenkron's successor as Barker Professor, said yesterday that Gerschenkron was "one of the last cultivated European intellectuals, a great scholarly model...