Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...door. The ease with which Bush has skirted the boundaries of truth in the campaign remains troubling. Last week, while coasting on a comfortable lead, the Vice President felt compelled to charge that Dukakis' economic nostrums are "far outside the mainstream," and snidely hinted that they come closer to European-style socialism than American free enterprise. It is a scant defense to suggest that these hyperbolic words were scripted by Bush's handlers; a President too, if he does not exercise restraint, can be at the mercy of his speechwriters. Balanced against this is the high-level technical competence...
...Vice President, to be sure, has far greater firsthand knowledge of East-West relations and the concerns of European allies. But Dukakis would bring to the presidency an equally strong instinctive understanding of the economic threats to the nation's security from both Japan and an increasingly integrated European Community...
...system of weights and measures that confounds the outside world. Instead of using the no-nonsense metric system, Britons measured their cricket pitches in chains (22 yds.), their horse races in furlongs (220 yds.), their meat in pounds and their beer in pints. Bowing to a proposal of the European Community, however, the British have tentatively agreed to convert their systems to metric, starting...
...Treasure Room, built in 1948, houses more than 1000 of the Law Library's rarest books in three stories of stacks, including a number of European law books printed before 1601. Warrington said most of the damaged books date to the 16th and 17th centuries...
...defectors, particularly central Asians with a genuine commitment to Islam and an antipathy toward European Russians, have reportedly actually taken up arms on the mujahedin side. Almost to a man, the POWs who talked to TIME denied any desire to return to their homeland after the war. "I'd like to stay in Afghanistan and find a job," said Beg, explaining that he feared imprisonment or even execution if he returned home to the Soviet Union. "I'm free here," he explained. "As a Muslim, I'm not oppressed...