Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I came to Harvard, I identified with international students as much as I did with those from my "home" state of Maryland. I was as much at ease with European traditions as I was with Indian customs. But, to tell you the truth, before I entered the huge registration tent behind Sever Hall, I had never strongly associated myself with any one particular group--ethnic, religious or otherwise...
...slow conversion. A semester after Secretary of State George C. Marshall presented his historic European Recovery Plan in Tercentenary Theater, Harvard had only begun to acclimate to the post...
April 3 - President Truman signs the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948. It provides $5.3 billion for the European Recovery Program, also known as the Marshall Plan...
...city in the early '90s. "Both sides realized that they could not win a military victory," says Donncha MacNiallais, a former I.R.A. member who became a community worker in the Bogside after serving 10 years in prison. To encourage the move away from violence, Britain, the U.S. and the European Community poured money into Northern Ireland to fund community groups and self-help schemes. Local agitators, including dozens of former prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that they would begin worrying about funding targets, not bombing targets. In central Londonderry, every other street corner seems...
...Bruises to the ribs and chest of cadaverous guitarist KEITH RICHARDS have forced the Rolling Stones to postpone the European leg of their Bridges to Babylon tour for at least four days. The injury was suffered while Richards was reaching for a book in the library of his Connecticut home. Doctors say he's day to day. We're surprised about the library...