Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiating with various deans, faculty members and students, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 undoubtably draws upon information learned while writing his government honors thesis on "The Importance of Diplomatic Procedures: A Case Study of the European Concert in the Near East 1894-1898." Jewett's thesis, like the others noted here, all were good enough to join the elite collection stored for eternity in the Harvard archives...
...abundant. Along the stately, tree-lined Paseo de la Castellana, a boulevard that runs through Madrid's main business district, a rush by foreign banks and other multinational companies to rent or buy scarce office space has helped raise real estate prices 20% over the past year. U.S., European and Japanese businessmen throng Spanish golf courses and savor Madrid's night life...
While the Iran-contra scandal has virtually monopolized the attention of the American media since last November, Europeans tend to wonder what the fuss is all about. To a great many of them, the scandal seems like yet another perplexing case of American moralism run wild, a national exercise in self- flagellation. Many Europeans, who also never fully understood why Americans became so upset by the Watergate affair in the mid-1970s, feel that such a crisis could never happen in their own countries. TIME's Paris bureau chief Jordan Bonfante examines the European bewilderment concerning Iranscam...
Imbot's unheeded alarm showed how the European political conscience can be very different, and far less exacting, when it comes to conspiracy in high places. That is one reason why Iranscam has had limited impact in much of Europe. Government officials and the general public are not shocked by the facts of Iranscam so much as by its mismanagement and the extent to which the scandal is traumatizing the Reagan Administration...
Kohl's campaign has received a huge boost from the powerful West German economy. Inflation has been so thoroughly conquered that German prices are now falling at an annual rate of 1.2%. Unemployment, still high by European standards, has dropped from 10.4% in January 1986 to a current rate of 8.9%. Kohl's Christian Democrats boast that some 600,000 jobs have been created in the past three years, half of them in 1986. All in all, West Germans appear to be as comfortable and self-satisfied as they have ever been. Says Joachim Fest, co-publisher of the conservative...