Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Druse tribesmen slew thousands of Lebanese Christians, leading to European intervention and the establishment of Lebanon as an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire...
...looks upon the loi-cadre as only one step toward autonomy. But the French regard him benignly as one of the ablest administrators in the whole territory. "I am no socialist," says he, "and neither are my colleagues. We have studied the principles of socialism, Communism, the M.R.P., the European Unionists, and we have adopted principles which correspond to the needs of Africa today." Chief need of Africa: "Lots of capital. But to attract it we must inspire confidence in investors. Our responsibility is to inform the African people of their responsibility in this matter...
Though a firm can get its foot in the common market simply by licensing a European firm to manufacture a U.S. product, most U.S. companies, especially those already established in market countries, prefer to set up new branches or subsidiaries instead. They have found it best to buy existing plants, since building a new plant in Europe often means building housing for workers as well...
Many U.S. firms have discovered that the best and safest method is to buy a partnership in a European firm. Faced with much stiffer competition in the common market, European manufacturers are eager to get U.S. cash and technical know-how to help them meet it. A U.S. firm, on the other hand, can profit from its European partner's intimate knowledge of his market and area...
Economists hope that the common market will later be joined by a proposed European free-trade area, consisting of the United Kingdom and five other countries outside the common market, to form a community of more than 240 million potential customers. Many U.S. firms are holding back to see if this will happen; they would prefer to get into England under lower tariffs, thus gain access to the Commonwealth trading area as well as the common market. But foreign traders contend that now is the best time for U.S. firms to enter the market area. Says Lawyer Ball: "There...