Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes a film about one of the most ignored empires of all time, that of the Ottoman Turks. At its height, this empire ruled the entire Balkan peninsula, Syria, Egypt, Hungary, even the Levant. But the rise of European empires in the 19th century hastened the decay of the Ottomans, who were ruffled by strong independence movements in Greece and European competition for Fgypt and Palestine...
...people have forgotten the Turks and their empire. They may vaguley remember their presence in several Shakespeare plays or how they treated the Armenians at the turn of the century. They might even remember that Britain fought the Crimean War with the Turks and aginst the Russians to safeguard European shipping rights in the Bosphorous--if they remember the Cirmean War. But most have probably forgotten that, however free Greece may have been in antiquity, it suffered many years under the Ottoman yoke...
...purported sightings of new planets have generated a good deal of excitement. Latham's, especially, seemed stronger than the others because it was confirmed independently, in this case by a European team in Geneva that had been observing the same star. But the "alleged planet," says Latham, is "hotter than an oven" and has a noxious, gaseous atmosphere. Says he: "This is not a place you would look for life...
...challenge by the longtime party boss, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes. Although Duarte and the candidate are not on the best of terms, Rey Prendes' close ties to corrupt officials led the U.S. embassy to favor Chavez Mena. "It is almost like Duarte is already completely forgotten," says a European diplomat. "It is really quite chilling...
Nomura tries to enter foreign markets quietly, a strategy called dochakuka, or "blending into the landscape." Explains Hitoshi Tonomura, co-chairman of Nomura's London-based European subsidiary: "We don't want to become an ) outpost of our Tokyo head office. We are here to become European." The most important tenet of this philosophy is that Nomura hires locally: only 300 of its 2,000 overseas employees are Japanese...