Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partners in the European Community, the British do not care what they do actually, so long as they renounce it correctly. At least that was what many Europeans were tempted to conclude last week as Britain again vexed the rest of the Community on several key issues. It thereby provoked new laments that maybe Charles de Gaulle was right in wanting to blackball les anglais from membership in the first place...
Foremost among the issues was the proposed European monetary system, which came under the scrutiny of the Community's Finance Ministers in Brussels last week. Devised by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to insulate Europe from fluctuations of the dollar, the plan had won approval in principle at a Common Market summit in Bremen last month, and had been presented to President Carter and other leaders of the industrial West at the subsequent Bonn summit. British Prime Minister James Callaghan, however, remained cool toward the idea. In the first place, the British?...
...cannot link the monetary problem to the agricultural question," snapped a French foreign ministry official. But the British called it basic fair play. Countered a Tory M.P.: "The hypocritical French have maintained the agricultural policy against all comers to appease their farmers, and no one calls them anti-European...
Another point of conflict was the proposed construction of a new, 200-seat B10 European Airbus, a mainly Franco-German project that is aimed ambitiously at loosening the U.S. hold on the world's commercial aircraft market. To enhance the Airbus' chances, the French and Germans have tried to persuade the British to join in its development, with a standing offer to build the wings and other key parts...
Actually, most of Jefferson's inventions were just copied from European models. And most cost him more time and effort than they saved. The dittographer was always breaking down. The way he made his home 'convenient' left his daughter and her children roofless, living under canvas for long periods of remodeling. Too much attention to the house's gimmicks can distract one from the home, which is perhaps Jefferson's most truly - original work, notion of equal opportunity but an exact uniformity in men's moral sense, a term that itself possessed exact meaning...