Word: europeanize
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...Enters Algeria's Killing Fields Deciding it can no longer ignore the carnage on the Mediterranean's south shore that is Algeria's vicious civil war, the European Union squares its shoulders and resolutely sends in -- the fact-finders...
...high level of hockey, the European style of play and the suddenness of it all certainly left an indelible mark on the youngster...
ALGIERS: A European Union delegation began talks with Algeria Tuesday, prodded by a growing suspicion that government hardliners are complicit in the slaughter of as many as 1,100 civilians there in the past month. Allegations of government involvement were amplified last week when two Algerian policemen told a British newspaper they had participated, under orders, in massacres of civilians...
After hot debates and serious negotiations at the Kyoto summit on climate change, the European Union, the U.S. and Japan agreed on a treaty with specific targets for each party [ENVIRONMENT, Dec. 22]. Vice President Al Gore, however, announced afterward that the agreement would not be presented to the U.S. Senate for ratification until developing countries have joined the pact. I wonder if he thinks they will participate in the treaty in a reasonable period of time. I suspect that the U.S. went to Kyoto with no intention of being serious about the agreements to be reached there. The value...
Ethiopian Orthodoxy is a curious amalgam of Judaic and Christian practices, African and European rituals. It is manifestly a man's religion: only males may enter the inner sanctuary where it is claimed Moses' Ark is hidden. No one knows anyone who has actually seen it, but the pilgrims are certain it is there. "They don't have to let people see it for us to believe it," says a gnarled elder. "That's the mystery." Women, he adds, are excluded because "God made the rules for mankind and women broke them...