Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President charged the Common Market with unfairly subsidizing European wheat exports during the past four years, thereby undercutting U.S. grain prices and robbing American farmers of export sales worth $2 billion annually. The Administration's complaint against South Korea was that its patent and copyright laws do not adequately protect U.S. products and authors from counterfeiters. The cost to the U.S.: more than $170 million a year. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes indicated that the action against the Common Market and South Korea is only the beginning. The President is now considering twelve other unfair trade complaints...
...government had been warned that hanging Benjamin Moloise, 30, a black upholsterer and poet, would lead to bloodshed. The U.S. had asked State President P.W. Botha to "take another look" at the planned execution. The Soviet Union, the European Community, the 49-nation Commonwealth of Britain and the U.N. Security Council, among others, had also asked that Moloise's life be spared. But Botha refused all appeals for clemency, and last week, shortly after dawn, Moloise went to the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison. In Washington, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes told reporters: "We hoped that this action would...
...Senate subcommittee earlier this month cut funding for the Soviet and East European Research and Training Act, which was authorized by congress in 1983 to provide funds for Soviet-bloc research in the name of national security...
Last year, the center received $83,333 from the government, of which $70,000 was earmarked to be passed on to five or six journals in the field of Soviet-East European Studies...
...clothing of our time." His designs challenge so many traditional expectations and break so many rules that they need different sets of standards to be understood or even worn. "I know many people resist or reject my clothing, because it's not a package that's already formed, like European clothing," the designer will concede. "Without the wearer's ingenuity, my clothing isn't clothing. These are clothes where room is left for wearers to make things their own. That may need courage at first, but once you get the trick, it's not difficult...