Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When NASA head Daniel Goldin declared earlier this year that the U.S. rocketry program is inferior to those of European competitors, he was only stating the obvious. True, the U.S. launches real astronauts and not just satellite payloads. But dismayed by delays, cost overruns and the Challenger disaster, paying clients began to go elsewhere. The shuttle's $80 million-per-launch cost prompted California Congressman Dana Rohrbacher to quip that it is "the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills...
...dual-containment policy has critics--some European countries wonder why the U.S. does not engage Iran and Iraq as it does Syria, whose regime is equally brutal--but few would dispute the strategic value of protecting oil. The question, though, is whether the U.S. has become so aggressive in its buildup that it risks undermining the gulf countries even as it protects them. The U.S. tries to maintain a low profile, but as the Dhahran bombing and the one in Riyadh that preceded it both tragically indicate, the presence of U.S. soldiers incites radical Islamists. Many Arabs...
...preparation for their encounter with Nordex. Unlike B.C.C.I., Nordex has never been charged with any crimes, although it has been under scrutiny by police and intelligence agents for years. To find out why, Gwynne and Gurwin gathered information from sources in the U.S., the Middle East, Russia and other European nations. "We went to extraordinary lengths to find out everything we could," says Gurwin. One of the best sources was Nordex president Grigori Loutchansky, says Gwynne, "because he's anxious to clear his name...
...simply because we couldn't compete with children's wages in the Third World. In a global economy, companies will manufacture wherever wages are lowest. Now we need global unions to help establish and enforce the minimum wage and all other benefits workers should enjoy. Asian child labor and European unemployment are aspects of the same problem. It's an illusion to think otherwise. Neither difficult situation will be solved by politicians and unions who still think only of national interests or by consumers indifferent to the health and future of all children, in both rich and poor nations...
...promised to yank the staunch U.S. ally out of NATO and evict thousands of strategic U.S. troops from the country. But since his election as prime minister last month, Necmettin Erbakan has backed away from his opposition to the West and said that attaining full membership in the European Union would be one of his party's "ultimate goals." TIME's James Wilde reports from the Turkish capital: "Erbakan has made a 180-degree turn in policies. He says that he will govern under the principles of secularism and democracy, words that he had never used before coming to power...