Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it comes to politics, some say Americans are becoming more European, more willing to tolerate peccadilloes in their leaders without calling for the guillotine. But if one day Americans, like the French, end up tolerating a President with a separate family on the side, it won't be out of some Gallic lack of puritanism. It will be out of a weary, hard-won, American-style pragmatism. It will be because Americans have decided that it just plain makes sense to carve out distinctions between private morality and public character...
...lives in one room of a genteelly fading three-story house in Queens, New York. She was, she recalls, "a child of privilege" in Warsaw, where her father Jozef owned an investment bank. She and her brother and sister attended private schools, and the family traveled to the great European resorts for bathing in the summer and skiing in the winter. To ensure the family's future in uncertain times, Jozef Sapir regularly deposited his profits in banks in Switzerland, $30,000 to $40,000 at a time. "He trusted them absolutely," she says. "It's funny. He was able...
...year-end board meeting convened, Lewis telephoned her brother-in-law Jean Fugett Jr., then chairman and chief executive officer. The message was short and simple: "Jean, I'm taking over." With more than 50% of the stock in her hands, Loida got what Loida wanted, which was a European snack-food and grocery business mired in debt. The smart money on Wall Street thought the inexperienced Lewis would surely flop...
...1980s, Reg Lewis was so obsessed with "doing another Beatrice" that he left the company's core operations adrift. Jean Fugett, a former pro footballer who was Reg's half brother and his handpicked successor, continued the hunt for deals. In the meantime Beatrice was hit by a roiling European recession in 1992 and a rapid erosion of market share, profits and cash. In the middle of this tumult, Fugett hatched a takeover bid for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. With Beatrice's big shareholders in revolt, Lewis made her move...
Bringing together institutes like the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), the Center for European Affairs, the Davis Center for Russian Studies and the government department, the new center is designed to increase interaction between students and scholars in international studies...