Word: europeanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets began while he was in Vienna, from 1980 to 1987, or when he served in Berlin, from 1970 to 1975. As the second-ranking diplomat in the Vienna embassy, including a ten-month stint as charge, or acting ambassador, Bloch had access to U.S. diplomatic traffic on East European and Soviet issues as well as worldwide regional reports. He was aware of CIA activities, if not the names of actual agents, in one of the world's most active intelligence arenas, the Austrian capital. As one of eleven office directors in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs...
...another deal that was driven by global ambitions, shareholders of SmithKline Beckman, developer of the anti-ulcer drug Tagamet, last week approved a merger with London's Beecham Group, which has built strong European markets. One week earlier Dow Chemical agreed to merge its Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals subsidiary with Marion Laboratories, whose chief prescription drug is Cardizem, an angina treatment. In the afterglow of the Time-Warner marriage and other such deals, companies in many industries may gain greater confidence to embark on friendly combinations...
...capital spending. No one thinks exports will repeat the explosive growth of last year, when sales abroad jumped nearly 30%, thanks largely to a declining U.S. dollar. One reason U.S. firms should find receptive markets overseas is that the economies of Western Europe and Japan are still rapidly expanding. European Community members are expected to sustain 3% growth in 1989, and Japan is likely to show a 5% gain for the fiscal year ending next March...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower European Economic Correspondent: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...mining the movie tradition of sophisticated comedy-drama that stretches from Midnight to Manhattan and Broadcast News. Before sex, lies earned raves at the U.S. Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and then won the top prize at Cannes, Soderbergh was apprehensive. "I thought the film would seem too European for an American audience," he says, "and too dialogue heavy to translate in Europe. I figured ten people would go see it four times, and that would be that." Reiner, a man Ephron describes as being "very fond of his depressions," dared to commit some small optimism on his happy...