Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signed a treaty committing industrial nations to such a rollback by the year 2000--a point not lost on delegates attending a pre-Kyoto planning conference last week in Bonn. "Disappointing and insufficient," is how Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, head of the German delegation, characterized Clinton's proposals. And the European Union issued a statement saying in part, "The U.S. proposal is for an even lower target than that proposed by Japan, which we already considered inadequate to tackle the problem of climate change...
...Europeans had previously come out for a stricter standard that would cut emissions by industrial nations to 15% less than 1990 levels by the year 2010. And in Bonn last week, the so-called G77 group of 77 developing nations, along with China, signed on to the European plan (which doesn't require developing countries to make any cuts at all, even though their rapid industrialization and inefficient technology could eventually make them the world's leading polluters...
Indeed, many delegates to the Bonn meeting are offended that the U.S. is making any demands at all, considering how little it has done to fight the greenhouse effect. In fairness, while the European Union has taken the problem more seriously, some of its success was due to political accident. The collapse of the Soviet bloc, for example, allowed Germany to shut the former East Germany's most antiquated factories. And in England, the declining power of coal miners' unions enabled factories to switch to cheaper but less polluting fuels they'd long favored anyway...
After the talk, Habermas attended a lunch hosted by the Committee outside of the Hilles Cinema and then proceeded to a symposium at the Center for European Studies. The symposium, "Dilemmas of European Citizenship in Contemporary Perspective," ran from...
...Trouble started early on Wall Street when traders grew worried about a 6 percent decline in Hong Kong's Hang Seng index Monday. The Asian economic crisis, which started the Hong Kong avalanche, spread to Latin America and continued to put severe pressure on European and American markets...