Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...European states also oppose the law and threaten to retaliate in kind. While no one disputes the need to fight terrorism, this latest piece of lex Americana, a sample of Washington's father-knows-best attitude, outrages allies who do dispute U.S. methods. Just last March, Clinton approved a similar bill threatening foreign companies active in Cuba. What this is really about, argues French Foreign Ministry spokesman Yves Doutriaux, "is one nation telling the rest on earth what they can and can't do. Is that right?" The European Union, Canada and Mexico definitely do not think so, and their...
...America's friends a far more serious principle--their sovereignty--is involved, and they are not going to roll over. In Washington the European Union delivered a formal protest to the State Department. In Brussels the European Commission proposed making it illegal for companies to comply with Helms-Burton and easing the way for firms to countersue in European courts. The commission is preparing a blacklist of U.S. companies and citizens that file suits against European firms, and threatens to refuse them visas. The E.U. insists that both U.S. actions are against international law and is challenging them...
...allies are determined to act if necessary. But they don't want to leap into battle if the threat is going to blow away after the November elections. European officials have taken in the fact that Clinton has suspended much of the effect of Helms-Burton until next year and promises to waive or apply the D'Amato provisions on a careful, case-by-case basis. "Clinton wants to show he is doing something concrete," says a French diplomat. "We are hearing that things may change by the end of November." Even so, declares French spokesman Doutriaux, "what we want...
...forward or backward or to the left or the right or fast or slow, he sips air from or blows air into a plastic straw at varying strengths. When he shifts his sitting angle between straight up and laid back, the chair makes the sound of an old European elevator or a convertible top closing...
...Wynorski ain't no Krzysztof Kieslowski--though, like the late master of European angst, Wynorski directed a trilogy. Oh, you didn't catch Wynorski's Sins of Desire, Victim of Desire and Virtual Desire? Then you may not know the rest of his work, sequels (Sorority House Massacre 2, Body Chemistry 3, Ghoulies 4) to movies you also never heard...