Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participants are unusually passionate about this rather obscure, unpopular sport filled with strange, hard-to-pronounce European names. "It is combat, and there's romance to it," says Arthur Phillips, the number-one foil fencer on the Crimson...
...European teams are allowed two "imports," or foreign players, each year. Several Harvard graduates have taken advantage of that option, including 1986 Hobey Baker winner Scott Fusco and Andy Janfaza...
...proper core, according to the outspoken critic of much of American higher education, should provide a systematic familiarization with "our own, Western tradition of learning: with the Classical and Jewish-Christian heritage, the facts of American and European history, the political organization of Western societies, the literature, [and] the major achievements of the scientific disciplines...
...compared with as much as $400,000 in France's Bordeaux region. The country has a host of grape-hospitable regions whose weather remains remarkably stable from year to year. Chilean grapevines, of mostly transplanted French and some German stock, are unscathed by the Phylloxera that devastated Californian and European vines in the 19th century. With an annual output of some 70 million gal., Chile ranks 13th among the world's wine producers. Los Vascos, with a yearly capacity of 423,000 gal., is unusual among the country's vineyards in that most of its wines are exported...
...Khomeini repeated his threat again and again, Western governments at last began to take action. Led by Britain and strongly supported by West Germany, the twelve members of the European Community voted to withdraw their top-ranking diplomats from Tehran in protest. So did Canada, Sweden and Norway. Iran swiftly retaliated by pulling most of its own ambassadors out of Western Europe...