Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bowling Green, Ky., the ZR1 will become the first $50,000 production car built entirely in the U.S. GM is not saying much about its new roadster, but Car and Driver magazine claims the ZR1 will hit 190 m.p.h., which would put it in a class with the best European performers. The current top-of-the-line Corvette reaches only 159 m.p.h. and costs...
...October 10, 1986 speech in Sanders Theater during Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, Secretary of Education William Bennett labelled the Core Curriculum a "smorgasbord." He advocated a more structured plan which would steep undergraduates in numerous courses covering "The classical and Jewish-Christian heritage, the roots of American and European History...and the great works of Western art and literature...
...quick to point out that, as a Dane, he brings a European view to his work. "To me America is the most eclectic country in the world," he says. He carried his quest for variety into his choice of outside choreographers: two of them -- Paul Taylor and Lar Lubovitch -- are modernists who shun pointe work. Although she has choreographed some ballet, Laura Dean is a modernist -- or post-modernist. Martins' decision is controversial; N.Y.C.B. dancers can dance decently barefoot, but why not display them in what they do best? There are some much noted omissions from the roster, including such...
...reason the Soviets are so enthusiastic about attracting ventures from the West is that they can see the budding success of such arrangements by their East European neighbors. According to a report released last month by the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe, the number of Western joint ventures in the East bloc has surged from just five in 1981 to 166 last year. Hungary leads the Soviet bloc in joint ventures, with 140 formed since 1972. Western firms are allowed to own the majority share of a venture in Hungary, and sometimes receive generous tax breaks. Yugoslavia, the first East...
Gonzalez also argued that if the U.S. government sincerely desired to be an equal partner with the European Community, then it should not restrain the military and technological development of European allies. He said that following these steps would lead to a more equal international distribution of power instead of the bipolarity of the post-WWII period...