Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn contract the work with more outsiders. As a result, the number of suppliers dealing directly with Ford is expected to continue dropping. "For the Escort, we worked with about 700 suppliers directly, and for the new Focus it's only 210," he says, talking about Ford's European models. "For the car we're planning as a replacement for the Fiesta, it will be 100 maximum...
...cannot be content just because 1998 did not end with a global financial meltdown and the U.S. and Europe achieved a good economic performance despite the debacle in the emerging markets and in Japan. If last year marked the end of U.S. and European complacency toward what was wrongly perceived at the beginning as just a regional crisis, 1999 is already shaping up as the year of living dangerously...
...gravity and economic rationality. Growth prospects have dramatically lessened in Europe, sweeping away any hope of a significant reduction in the still unacceptably high levels of unemployment. This has the potential to heighten tensions between the imperatives of economic national policies and the policy criteria set by the European central bank. Such tensions will put to the test the stability of the Continent's new currency, the euro, earlier than expected...
...relatively robust economy" is how Lipp forecasts Europe's performance in 1999, mainly because European companies "are in one of their strongest positions in the past decade." Moreover, the arrival of Europe's new currency, the euro, will lead to further productivity-enhancing mergers and acquisitions. "What will emerge is a completely integrated corporate sector," gaining momentum in the next few years. But the process may take a decade to complete...
...three little clowns--myself, my wife and the boy--in the most terrifying place in the world. It's a movie about how to protect your innocence, your purity, in the face of evil." What else can one say but Yikes! The only thing worse than listening to mawkish European comics lecture about innocence is listening to mawkish $20 million-a-picture American movie stars do the same. We can be grateful, then, that Robin Williams wasn't nominated for Patch Adams. But I don't look forward to Oscar night 2002, when Williams will surely be honored...