Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Western Europe should be so lucky. Economic growth resumed there this year, but the projected gains are pretty modest: 2.3% in 1997 and 2.7% in 1998. The fate of the common currency of the European Monetary Union, which is to be inaugurated Jan. 1, 1999, is a big reason. The new unit, known as the euro, will proceed on schedule, predicts John Hsu, CEO of John Hsu Capital Group, a New York City-based money-management firm. "But there will be all kinds of compromises. That implicitly means the euro is going to be a weak currency." Britain is expected...
Their efforts failed, but Richard Wurtman, an M.I.T. neurologist and Lilly consultant, took a different approach. Instead of using Prozac as a starting point, he turned to fenfluramine, a European weight-loss drug. Because fenfluramine acts on both serotonin and dopamine, it has the unfortunate side effect of putting its users to sleep. That is why doctors came up with fen/phen; the "phen" (phentermine) is an amphetamine-like drug that wakes the patient up again and boosts the metabolism to burn calories faster. Wurtman separated fenfluramine into its two component chemicals, levofenfluramine and dexfenfluramine. The latter has revealed itself...
Opened in 1939 by Savenor's grandfather, the European-style market has long been a meeting place for Beacon Hill's budding professionals...
...speech, Vigdis drew inspiration from a woman who according to the Icelandic saga of Eric the Red, was probably the first European to set foot on both sides of the Atlantic...
...July I had the opportunity to teach creative writing to a group of East European students at Pennsylvania's West Chester University. Their eight-week stay was funded by Soros, whom I'd never heard of. We ought to clone him. Imagine, a business tycoon who spends a third of his day "thinking... about... where the world is going"! This is behavior we normally attribute to poets and philosophers, people we pretend to take seriously but prefer to confine to the ivory towers of a university, where their radical social ideas will pose no threat to our selfish individualism. JENNIFER...