Word: europeanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the Atlantic, European financial leaders were startled by the signs of U.S. inflation and the budget stalemate, which they fear could lead to an eventual global slowdown. In a joint statement, France and West Germany pledged to coordinate efforts to keep their inflation rates in check. Said William Martin, chief economist for Phillips & Drew, a leading London brokerage: "Bush hasn't made any headway, and there is enormous skepticism about his progress...
Others contend that African American comes no closer to capturing a unique heritage than the word it would replace. S. Allen Counter, a Harvard University professor of neurology, has coined the term Afrindeur Americans to reflect the mingling of African, Indian and European bloodlines. "Historical, biological and cultural integrity is what's in a name," says Counter. "We must be true to all of those." In Los Angeles entertainer John KaSondra has embarked on his own crusade in favor of "Dobanians" -- short for descendants of black African natives in the American North...
Clifford Stoll, a 38 year-old computer expert at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, broke the East European spy ring by setting up a complex monitoring system on his computer...
Three months later, Stoll said, he received a letter from a man in Pittsburgh asking for information about SDI Net. In April, 1987, he turned the letter over to the FBI, who found that the man had connections to Eastern European governments and immediately began an investigation...
Harvard hired Gwathmey's firm to design plans for the Busch-Reisinger--which has a collection of Central and Northern European art--last year. The New-York based firm has worked previously at other universities and designed a proposed wing for the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan