Word: euros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Waste Land was a deeply unoptimistic, un-Christian and therefore un-American poem, prefaced by the suicidal words of the Cumaean Sibyl, "I want to die." It is, we could say, the first Euro-poem. In its desolation at the breakup of the Judeo-Christian past, the poem turns for salvation to the Buddha and his three ethical commandments: Give, Sympathize, Control. But on the way to its ritually religious close ("Shantih, shantih, shantih"), it films a succession of loveless or violent or failed sexual unions--among the educated ("My nerves are bad tonight") and the uneducated ("He, the young...
...probably a safe bet that today's Harvard students could not name the European countries that will use the Euro if their lives depended...
Earlier this year, Chrysler stunned audiences with the Chronos, a conceptualized superluxurious, Euro-styled touring sedan with a V-10 engine. It's a dream for Chrysler--too expensive for the company to produce alone. Daimler's deeper pockets, though, could support such a program. "Daimler has been lacking the potential for growth, but it has the cash flow," says Andre Igler, industry expert and editor of Vienna's business daily Wirtschaftsblatt. "Chrysler has the potential for growth but no real cash flow...
With work well under way to bring a single European currency--the euro--into being next year, we asked several experts what European coin or bill they would miss the most...
...Blair, Jacques Chirac, Helmut Kohl and the other European leaders are not waiting for America's balance to tip toward Europe but are shaping their own future. And 11 of the 15 European Union countries have qualified to participate in the new common currency of the European Union, the Euro, which will become the currency of Europe next...