Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest cycling duel in the 83-year history of the Tour de France ended last week on the Champs Elysees to the unprecedented strains of The Star- Spangled Banner. Greg LeMond, 25, became the first non-European to win the premier race in this most passionately parochial of Old World sports. And the easygoing American did it by triumphing in a fratricidal war with his teammate --and friend--Bernard Hinault, 31, who has become a two-wheeled French national monument. Over 2,542 miles, traversing 76 mountains and hills in the Pyrenees and Alps, covering as much as 160 miles...
Next week Burrows will announce a new U.S. commander to replace Norman S. Marshall, who is retiring after three years in the post. She is already mapping the Army's future, including how to deal with the alarming drop in European officers. But what is certain not to change is the Army's dedication to serving the unfortunate. A visit to the Bowery in New York City vividly illustrates that commitment. There, in a lodging run by the Army since 1912, a staff of 72 takes care of more than 400 down-and-outers. An officer on duty admits that...
...becoming hooked on the inflow of money from such lenders. Japanese banks buy some 25% of all U.S. Treasury bonds. Says one European banker: "They are the ones who are funding the U.S. budget deficit." Ironically, Michigan, where the auto industry has been battered by Japanese imports, was saved from a budget crisis in 1982 when the Mitsubishi Bank agreed to guarantee $500 million worth of the state's bonds. Almost no project is too large or too small for the yen-laden financiers. Last year the Bank of Tokyo lent $5 million to a group of New York developers...
...European museums have had a steady flow of exhibitions of this kind, but America has been left out of active cultural exchanges," Nisbet said. "Maybe this will begin a change and America can be a beneficiary of this exchange as well," he said...
Although Soviet museums have lent their exhibitions to U.S. galleries before, "this one is a novelty because the works are done by Russian artists, such as Ripin, Shishkin and Kandinsky, whereas every other exchange consisted of European artists' work exhibited in Russian galleries," she said...