Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States of America is an immigrant society, and has been since the beginnings of European settlement in the late 16th century. English, French, Spanish, Italians, Africans, Chinese, Japanese and everyone else have been carrying parts of their past, their inherited or remembered culture, into America for the past 400 years. As a result, American art tells the American story: Americans, like any other people, inscribe their histories, beliefs, attitudes, desires and dreams in the images they make...
...World really was new, at least to its European conquerors and settlers. It fostered a passionate belief in reinvention and in the power to make things up as you go along, which is an important form of freedom. This and a hankering for origins are both strong, contradictory urges. They produce closely twined feelings: on the one hand a sense of freedom to act in the present and future, and on the other a nostalgia for the past. These lie at the heart of all immigrant experience and are summed up in America as nowhere else. The art Americans have...
...expansion, may mean NATO leaders will call the Russian President on the carpet at the signing ceremony in Paris on May 27. Despite NATO?s hot denials, Yeltsin continues to insist that NATO has agreed it will never deploy nuclear or conventional forces on the territory of new East European members. "He's upsetting not only NATO members, but prospective members, because he's making it sound as if Eastern European countries would be second-class members, as if Russia has veto power over the conditions of their participation," says Nelan. Get used to it: Yeltsin spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky says...
America's companies, and especially its workers, went through restructuring torment in the early '90s, but as a result are now punishingly competitive. Adding to the U.S. advantage: Americans are far ahead of their European and Japanese counterparts in embracing computers and communications systems in homes and offices. With companies increasingly able to get more from their people and resources, corporate profits, and hence stock prices, have risen relentlessly...
...random reasons" that Berners-Lee is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, he says. "I happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I happened to have the right combination of background." The place was CERN, the European physics laboratory that straddles the Swiss-French border, and he was there twice. The first time, in 1980, he had to master its labyrinthine information system in the course of a six-month consultancy. That was when he created his personal memory substitute, a program called Enquire. It allowed him to fill a document with...