Word: euros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student may take a course in any department that deals comparatively with any three of the five major ethnic groups in the United States--Euro-Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans...
...Euro Disney looked more the beauty than the beast last week as it announced its first quarterly profit since opening in 1992. The theme park attributed third-quarter earnings of more than $35 million to an enthusiastic public response to price cuts in tickets, food and hotels--and a new Space Mountain roller coaster...
...winning reelection as Conservative Party leader by a vote of 218 to 89 over challenger John Redwood. Major wasted no time in reshuffling his Cabinet to reward loyalists from the center and the left of his party. At issue: Britain's future role in the European Union, which Conservative "Euro-skeptics'' fear will diminish their country's independence. Analysts say the real winner in the leadership contest was the Labour Party--now enjoying a nearly 30-point lead in polls and gaining strength for the general election, which must take place by spring...
...small but dedicated group of Tory Euro-skeptics, who doubt Major's toughness on maintaining British sovereignty in the European Union, precipitated the Prime Minister's pre-emptive strike and will not be easily silenced. The Euro-skeptics will almost certainly field a leadership candidate on the first ballot. Already the names of Barry Field, a political unknown, and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont, who became the scapegoat for sterling's being ignominiously suspended from the European exchange-rate mechanism in September 1992, are being mentioned as possibilities. They stand little chance, but could serve as a stalking...
...election, though, will not be the Euro-skeptics who forced the crisis, but the many conservative M.P.s who are wavering over Major's record as Prime Minister and the Tories' precipitous decline in the polls. The Conservatives trail Labour by 39 points, according to one poll, and with seats and parliamentary careers at stake, many could bolt for a more voter-friendly leader. Says a conservative M.P. privately: "The main problem is that this government is incompetent and indecisive. Its policies keep changing. It even fails to publicize the positive things it has done, so people think...