Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asia, has been under military rule for the past 34 years. The present military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), killed an estimated 10,000 nonviolent democracy demonstrators when it came to power in 1988. The SLORC has been repeatedly condemned by the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Australia for its rampant human rights abuses and is widely considered one of the most oppressive regimes in the world...
...Europeans have spent more than $2 billion to develop these cars, hoping not only to rekindle the glowing embers of nostalgia but also to jump-start their sagging sales in the U.S. The past decade has not been kind to European companies like BMW and Mercedes, which have had their U.S. revenues run over first by a bad economy and then by Japanese luxury models. "It was not just accidental sheer desire to build a vehicle," says Rick Ford, a senior vice president of Porsche, USA. "With this company we can ill afford an error." Porsche saw its U.S. sales...
...Worse was my own realization, and no doubt that of many Jews who watched "Schindler's List," that the characters represented in the consoling father, the hysterical little boy, the murdered mother and the harassed young girl very likely met the same fate as did members of my own European family...
...year over long periods. So far, no large schools of U.S. investors are swimming overseas. A vicious bear market that clipped emerging-market stocks by 30% or more in 1994 remains a powerful deterrent. But Michael Price, the highly regarded manager of the Mutual Series funds, recently launched a European fund to capture values he sees overseas. The fund company Federated Investors, which manages more than $100 billion overall, has launched five foreign-stock funds this year for similar reasons...
...size of Western Europe, is already at risk. Only Mobutu's will and wizardry have held the place together for so long. His style of rule combines charisma with a flair for draconian repression. (As part of an "authenticity campaign" in the '70s to divest Zaire of its European taint, he outlawed bow ties, public kissing and Christmas.) But he also successfully marketed his country to the West as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in Africa, until the collapse of the Soviet Union robbed him of his usefulness...