Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dental floss is usually made of fine strings of nylon. If waxed, the strings tend to fray less often during use. Unwaxed pieces, however, are thinner and can fit better in small cracks. And rack and pinyon steering is the term for a geared steering mechanism first found in European cars. The system has fewer linkages than ordinary steering (one rather than five or six) so that the steering wheel's motion is transferred more completely to the bar connecting the wheels and hence the wheels. The rack, which is perpendicular to the steering rod, is this connecting...
...October, 1983, the Mellon Foundation offered matching grants for research and development in Russian, Soviet and Eastern European studies to several major American universities, said James Morris, program director at the Mellon Foundation. Other recipients included Columbia, Stanford, University of California at Berkely, and Michigan...
...Along with the failure of the ReaganAdministration at Iceland, this crisis deals ahideous body blow to European enthusiasm forAmerican leadership," said Dillon Professor of theCivilization of France Stanley H. Hoffmann...
Hoffman said the European reaction will be oneof "general dismay...
...international scandal "will make what theReagan Administration says to European nationshave a lot less weight," according to AssociateProfessor of History Bradford A. Lee. "This willmake the Europeans jumpier on arms controlissues," he added...