Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade dispute between the U.S. and the European Community had been simmering for months. In March, Portugal and Spain, the two new members of the E.C., put added tariffs on American agricultural exports that would cost U.S. farmers $500 million a year in lost sales. The U.S. responded with a threat to retaliate by July 1 against a host of European consumer items, including Perrier water, Brie cheese and Heineken beer. The E.C. came back with talk of restrictions on more products. Said Sir Roy Denman, the E.C. ambassador to the U.S.: "This is the nearest approach to trade...
...will be the envy of all red-blooded interior decorators) is a full-size wooden replica of Borromini's false-perspective colonnade, made in the 17th century for the Palazzo Spada in Rome. The second exhibition, "Wunderkammer," is a delight. Wunderkammern--literally, chambers of astonishment--were an embellishment of European collections from the 16th century onward. They were anthologies of real and artificial oddities, things astonishing by their exoticism or the intricacy of their making--or outright fakes, like a dead mermaid fashioned from dried fish and monkey skin. Their cabinets were stuffed with baroque pearls, narwhal tusks, mandrake roots...
Rumania has been hard hit by the disaster at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April. After the accident spread radioactive fallout across Eastern Europe, the European Community banned imports of crops and livestock from the region for three weeks. The embargo slashed the Bucharest regime's foreign-exchange earnings and forced the cash-short country to miss several million dollars in debt payments to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other Western lenders...
...believed sufficient taxes should be levied to clear the books in that 19-year stretch so that a new generation could face its own problems unencumbered. That pay- as-you-go principle might also be an effective restraint on the "dog of war," reasoned Jefferson, who had seen the European potentates suffocate their subjects with debt from wars of pride and whim...
Clinton described Hufton, who has been avisiting professor at Stanford University and theUniversity of California at Berkeley, as "aleading figure in 18th century European history,and well known for her work on women...