Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While studying at the London School of Economics, Kenyatta wrote Facing Mount Kenya, describing the life and customs of the Kikuyu in a golden, pre-European past. The book contained a photograph of a bearded Kenyatta carrying a spear and wearing a blue monkey cloak slung over his shoulder?all fabricated to make him look more like a tribal elder than a Western student. He was, as British Author Elspeth Huxley once observed, "a showman to his fingertips...
...lesser scale, three kinds of insects are attacking sweet corn in Maryland and Pennsylvania: the fall army worm, the corn-ear worm and the European corn borer. Ironically, the corn has been so lush this year that sprays used to combat the worms do not fully penetrate the thick foliage. Pest controllers estimate that Maryland farmers could lose up to 75% of their corn crops...
...years ago this week, in the biggest European invasion since World War II, about 200,000 Soviet and East bloc troops roared across Czechoslovakia's border and took over the country to prevent a "counterrevolution." Translation: Czechoslovakia was showing signs of growing democratization. So ended, tragically, the eight-month-long Prague Spring, an unprecedented and exhilarating period of cultural and political freedom that had been orchestrated by the Czechoslovak Communist Party of Alexander Dubček. Under Dubček, censorship had been lifted, police files aired and Communist Party officials-for the first time ever-subjected to open...
...currencies of Japan and the West European countries rise against the dollar, the products of these countries become more expensive and harder to sell in world markets-so their economies are threatened too. At worst, the process, if allowed to continue, would lead to a breakdown of world trade and investment, for businessmen cannot make rational decisions if they do not know what the major trading and reserve currency-the dollar-will be worth months or weeks or even days hence. At times last week the dollar swung as much as 1% to 2% in value against some other currencies...
Chrysler will collect $230 million in immediate cash, and $200 million in Peugeot stock that it could put up as collateral to get loans. Also, Peugeot will assume responsibility for $400 million owed to creditors by Chrysler's European units. Dumping that debt should improve Chrysler's credit rating, and thus its ability to borrow...