Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest tuna canner, responding to consumer sentiment, announced that it would buy only tuna caught by other methods. That same year, LaBudde's group, Earth Island Institute, successfully sued the Bush Administration to bar tuna imports from Mexico and other Latin American countries that failed to protect dolphins. European nations followed suit, which extended the embargo to an estimated 80% of the canned-tuna consumer market...
...free on beaches as they are unable to nudge Congress toward state-funded daycare, the careful analysis from a half-dozen countries of Muslim imperialism versus the iconography of Madonna, the reminder from Rome that Italy once governed one-third of present-day Somalia. Not liberal, not conservative, not European or Asian begins to designate overseas programming. Only different comes anywhere close, although at Harvard strange might do as well...
After the war, Homer started to paint women--not the nudes of classical European painting, but young working women. The MFA show has over 50 canvases devoted to women, in various scenes: at work, playing croquet, or simple portraits. In his "Morning Bell," a red-and-white clad woman walks to her factory job; in the background other women are doing farm chores. This shows the transition from America's agrarian past to the post-War industrial economy; Homer's eye is focused on the trends in the lives of average citizens...
...soca music. Outside, crickets chirp and waves murmur on the beach. The air is soft, the breeze sweet. It's hard to imagine a cozier, more peaceful spot to unwind from winter's onslaught, which explains why every year at this time thousands of sun-starved American and European tourists migrate to St. Kitts by plane and cruise ship. Most of them are unaware that the sleepy little isle also accommodates a more sinister group of visitors, emissaries of the Colombian drug lords who have established a thriving cocaine-transshipment base there...
...cartels have turned to the eastern Caribbean for new ones. Since 1990, seizures there have quadrupled to 18 tons of cocaine annually. Today the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration believes that more than 100 major traffickers are using the islands as storage and distribution points for both U.S. and European markets. In one of those ironies of interconnectedness the modern world seems to excel at, while the tourists are getting away from it all, the cocaine is flowing back to further blight what they're trying to escape...