Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they did not want any pictures taken. Screaming and shouting at us, they grabbed our TV cameras, all our tapes and even our briefcases. Several armed Taliban enforcers slapped a cameraman, while another rammed his rifle butt at visiting aid workers. One raised his hand toward Emma Bonino, the European Union Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, there to investigate the Taliban's treatment of women, and would have struck her but for an aide's intervention. The next thing we knew, a truckload of armed men were escorting us to the central police station. After several hours, they freed...
STOCKHOLM: Brushing aside objections that they only give prizes to white European males, the Nobel Academy Thursday awarded its prize for Literature? to a white European male. It is, nevertheless, likely to be a popular choice: the winner has amused audiences the world over...
Those who think I haven't given sufficient attention to international monetary policy will be pleased to learn that I've been in London studying the euro, the unified currency being adopted by the European Union, and have decided that it sounds too much like a small...
...process of melding a number of currencies into one is called European Monetary Union, which is customarily expressed by the acronym EMU. The English, I think, would be reluctant to use the term even if they were not aware that an EMU is a large edible bird, native to Australia...
...research convinced me that there is one way the European Union could make the new currency more attractive to the British public: each euro could be divided into 20 shillings, and each shilling into 12 pence...