Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foul name. We were fitting an analytical classification to his amoral discourse about our country's sad history of violating black folks' humanity under Southern slavocracy and modern racism. This is no different than the classification that Native Americans put around the slaughter of their ancestors during the European conquest of North America and the subsequent "pacification" during the formative years of the American republic--that classification being "genocide" and thus those perpetrating this being "genocidists." Similarly, our classification of Jeffrey Vanke's amoral discourse was no different than the analytical classification that Jewish-Americans and Jews generally put around...
...collaboration. Rubinstein's thesis is a reasonable and, for the most part, well-supported one: namely, that Ehrenburg used his public image as "a harsh spokesman for Soviet interests" as "a cover to pursue his ultimate goal: to challenge the limits of Soviet censorship, revive Russia's connection to European culture, and restore to living memory the names and works of those whom Stalin first killed and then erased from history...
...major markets in North and South America and boasts more than 5,000 scientists and technicians--a skilled work force that is, by Western standards, grossly underpaid (average monthly salary: 400 pesos, or about $10). Peter Scott, chief executive of London-based Beta Funds Ltd., estimates that a European drugmaker could produce its drugs in Cuba for one-tenth the cost of local production...
Right now, however, the U.S. trade embargo prohibits American drug and chemical companies, Cuba's natural partners, from establishing joint ventures. The embargo likewise dissuades big European companies from striking deals with Cuba because products made in Havana cannot be sold in the U.S., which represents 50% of the global market for pharmaceuticals...
Area Four's population is largely Haitian, Latino, Puerto Rican and Cape Verdean, according to Barbosa. Eastern European immigrants, especially from the Czech Republic, have also begun moving to Area Four recently...