Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal may complicate diplomatic efforts to end the Kosovo conflict, but it's not as if those efforts had been on the verge of a breakthrough. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin flew into Belgrade alone Friday, having been stood up once again by the European Union's mediator, Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. After three-way talks with U.S. envoy Strobe Talbott in Moscow, Ahtisaari went instead to Germany for talks with EU president and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, although Chernomyrdin promised that he and the Finn would return to Belgrade next week. "Things are not looking...
...Chrysler culture that evolved in the '90s--a creative collection of industry renegades held in check by Eaton--was spectacularly unsuited for this European model of management. Eaton shaped a team of hotshots led by product wizards Bob Lutz and Francois Castaing. In addition to inventing the minivan and sport-utility vehicle, categories that are such profit machines today, Chrysler's designers proved with models like the Viper and the Prowler that cars don't have to be boring...
...leaving the darker performers behind. "It's fascinating to me, and a little upsetting, that this is still the white face of the Caribbean," says Santiago. "I'm sure that there are equally talented and gifted artists out there whose facial features don't conform as much to the European ideal...
...time. Once again, a trio of 2,000-pounders went astray. But this time the error wasn't made in the heat of battle by a pair of pilots fighting fear and fire. Instead it was made--and compounded--by deskbound drones at the CIA, the Pentagon, the U.S. European Command and NATO...
...package of potential targets next headed down the Potomac from the CIA to the Pentagon basement, home to the Joint Staff's directorate for targets and from there to the U.S. European Command in Germany and to NATO. All were charged with making sure that any bombs that went astray would do scant harm. No one raised an alarm...