Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prize freedom in this country. In European countries, people put caps on how much [money] you can keep. This is the country where we come and we keep what we earn," he said...
...long for the second guessing to start. Most of the criticism focused on the role of the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund. Since the initial devaluation announcement, the international financial community had seemed to be engaged in a game of hot potato: the U.S. insisted Russia was a European problem; the Europeans said the IMF should run the show; the IMF insisted it needed more U.S. support. But instead of pitching in immediately--and watching billions of dollars disappear--the IMF and the U.S. made a bet that the reformers would hold out until the summit...
...hates to shop. He considers it daringly fashion-forward to wear a deep blue shirt instead of a pale blue one. On casual Fridays, he may go nuts and slip on a pair of khakis. To most of his ilk, showing that you care about what you wear is European or effeminate, or both...
...Zambello, 41, majored in philosophy at Colgate University, although she already knew she wanted to become a director. Dark-eyed, strong-featured and forceful to a fault, she confesses to being "a born control freak." An apprenticeship with the innovative opera director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle led to her 1986 European debut at Venice's Teatro la Fenice, and her work is now seen regularly at London's Covent Garden and Paris' Bastille Opera, as well as in such American cities as Houston, where her joltingly fresh takes on Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Britten's Billy Budd opened back...
...miss Brenda Walsh, come to Israel. Of course Israel is still Israel: a sliver of a Jewish state with minimalistic European architecture and stunning landscapes. There are dazzling markets where spices are as colorful as they are strong, and streets wind thousands of years into the past, where Jewish, Christian and Islamic names and histories overlap with tens of half-for-gotten pasts. It is still a country where archaeological digs routinely turn up artifacts from the earliest fortified cities and people my age wear peagreen uniforms, berets and guns--whether defending Israel on the Lebanese border or guarding their...