Word: europeanize
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Algerians who oppose a takeover by Islamic militants feel particularly vulnerable. ``The Islamists can kill anyone, anywhere, anytime,'' said one of the few remaining European residents of Algiers. Militants have stepped up their ambushes and assassinations. A suicide bombing on Jan. 30 killed 42 people and injured 256 outside police headquarters in downtown Algiers. In a well-planned attack, Islamists assassinated Colonel Djilali Meraou, a ranking member of Algerian military intelligence, and two bodyguards...
...poet's visits to Rome, where Lewis spent most of her adult life. Her interest piqued by the meeting, Lewis made several busts of Longfellow, which serve as the central pieces of the exhibit. Despite her African and American heritage, Lewis chose to work in the distinctly European genre of neoclassical sculpture, a fact that the exhibit tries to play up. Similarly, a marginalized artist's interest in a patriarchal icon like Longfellow is intended to serve as a metaphor for the difficulty of communication between members of a society polarized by racial and gender issues. In the grand scheme...
History Department Head Tutor James Hankins and Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies Charles S. Maier co-authored the proposal, which was submitted to the Historical Study subcommittee on the Core last semester...
...Internet, or to more varied commercial services. France Telecom is struggling mightily to keep its Minitel lead, partly by forming strategic alliances with foreign communications groups (including AT&T, Sony, Motorola and Apple), but the French effort, like others in Europe, is burdened by the weight of the European Union's burgeoning bureaucracy, which is increasingly inserting barriers across the Continent's communications throughways...
...supermarket. Across the continent, food stores are erupting with radio and infrared data bursts that track pricing changes, inventory and customer buying patterns. Battery-powered shelf labels that receive instant price changes via radio transmitter are currently used in 25 Edwards Super Food Stores in Connecticut; more than 40 European stores employ a solar-powered version that receives pricing data via infrared. Several large food retail operators are exploring the use of ``smart cards'' and interactive kiosks to provide shoppers with information and keep track of the buying habits of their regular customers, using the information to adjust inventories...