Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has already begun to adopt a tougher posture. Washington has given the twelve-member European Community until Jan. 30, for example, to settle a trade dispute involving the loss of U.S. grain markets in Spain and Portugal. Failure to meet the deadline will mean automatic 200% U.S. tariffs on a number of European products, notably wine, liquor and cheese. The problem is that the Europeans have promised to retaliate in kind, meaning that a major or minor protectionist trade war might already be in the offing...
Stratton is a beautiful-people-only resort. The new village, with the requisite quaint architecture and gourmet shop also boasts clothes boutiques from Bogner and CB sports. It has a certain European flavor; one almost expects fur-clad women to stroll by with their poodles...
Belatedly, East European authorities are taking measures to regulate the narcotics flow. Hungary has tightened restrictions governing the distribution of medicines, and Czechoslovakia recently joined in approving a United Nations campaign against drug trafficking. Poland last month declared that it would spend $20 million on combatting drug abuse in 1987, double last year's amount...
...optical cable will be jointly owned by 29 separate North American and European communications companies, among them AT&T, RCA, MCI, ITT and Western Union. AT&T, which has a 37% stake in the venture, is in charge of building the first 3,161 nautical miles of the cable, to a point in the Atlantic Ocean near Continental Europe. There the cable will fork into two lines, one each to Britain and France, which will be built by communications firms from those countries...
...among Czech artists. This experience had literary consequences: The Prague Orgy, a novella recounting Nathan Zuckerman's misadventures in that city, included as the coda for the trilogy published as Zuckerman Bound (1985); and Roth's editorship of a series, "Writers from the Other Europe," which has given Eastern European writers exposure in the West. Roth's access to Prague ended in the mid-'70s, when his visa was not renewed. He had been tailed and questioned there, as had those who associated with him. "After I left one time," he recalls, "the authorities went to one of my Czech...