Word: euros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Euro-federalists hate the fact that, as the Belgian foreign minister Mark Eyskens noted, "The EC is an economic giant but a political dwarf and a military worm." They want to start changing this state of affairs at Maastricht, with as firm a call for political union as they can wheedle out of Britain. A federal Europe, they say, will not be flat-footed when crises arise...
That assumption is over-optimistic. Euro-federalists are being swept away in their own Euro-rhetoric. A call for political integration only makes sense if the nations involved already share compatible ideals and interests. Lofty sentiments notwith-standing, European nations find themselves severely at odds with each other in many, even most, major foreign policy questions...
...Might Euro-style prove too Euro-pricy for the college crowd...
...December the first guests checked into Stern's two ersatz-turn-of-the-century hotels at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, outside Orlando. May marked the opening of the most interesting of the Disney architecture, an administration building in Lake Buena Vista by Arata Isozaki. And at Euro Disney outside Paris, where a $4.1 billion theme park and resort will open next spring, buildings designed by Graves, Stern, Frank Gehry and Antoine Predock are all under construction...
...moment, curiosity seekers at Euro Disneyland must confine themselves to a preview center, where displays and models of the coming attractions are on view, along with a brief promotional film. At the souvenir shop next door, a simple sweatshirt, silk-screened with a ring of European flags encircling Mickey Mouse's face, sells for $39. A fast-food restaurant specializes in Texas-style chili...