Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events have conspired to keep Americans at home, while European and Asian tourists can feel at home abroad visiting Disney World's ersatz Eiffel Tower, Piazza San Marco and Japanese pagoda. Between March and September, U.S. amusement parks and theme attractions will have lured 235 million visitors through the turnstiles (average admission: $10) for a robust brand of professional patriotism. During the show at Florida Cypress Gardens, 30 miles from Disney World, a stunt man gliding high above the crowd effuses, "One thing I can see from here--or from any height--is that America sure is beautiful...
...since its founding a parochial company doing almost all its business in North America, would aggressively expand in Europe, but with a major new twist. Instead of making industrial controls almost exclusively to American standards, the company began designing them to the specifications of the International Electrotechnical Commission, the European arbiter. And instead of buying a foreign company to make the controls, which several competitors had done, it would make them in Milwaukee, in a new facility...
...York City's most renowned sandwiches are based on the East European- Jewish delicatessen meats, corned beef and pastrami, and the high priest of the genre is Leo Steiner, who oversees the action at the Carnegie Delicatessen & Restaurant. Half a pound of meat or more is thinly sliced and deftly layered between slices of seeded rye bread. "Not just anyone can build a sandwich like this," says Steiner. "It has to be many thin slices folded at the edges so there is the right texture, and the meat must be even on the bread so the customer doesn't bite...
...onetime NASA safety director: "There was social pressure: they had thousands of school kids watching for the first school lesson from space. There was media pressure: they feared that if they didn't launch, the press would unfavorably report more delays. And there was commercial pressure: the Ariane (European launcher) was putting objects in space at much lower cost. NASA was also trying to show the Air Force that they could operate on a schedule. The pressures were subtle, but they acted upon them...
Carrington arrived on the scene with the protestmarred deployment of Pershing II and Cruise missiles in several European countries. But all of the big decisions for the Year of the Missile had been made, and Carrington served chiefly as a steadying hand. Since then, NATO hasn't been in the media nearly as much. Some analysts see this lower profile as a tribute to Carrington: "The alliance doesn't make news when it works," says Haass. The minor crises--the dispute over action against Libya, the sporadic battling of Greece and Turkey, the near departure of Spain from NATO--haven...