Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientist, had no legal qualms. He reported excess heat from a cold-fusion device tucked into a red picnic cooler. Because he performed a control experiment to rule out a conventional chemical reaction, this was the strongest confirmation yet. The next day, Francesco Scaramuzzi, a bearded physicist with the Italian National Agency for Nuclear and Alternative Energy, reported what has been dubbed "Frascati fusion," for the town near Rome where his team detected the neutron signature of cold fusion. This, plus other announcements from India and South America, was beginning to give the doubters pause. Then, on April...
Residents of the neighborhood groused that they didn't want to put up with visiting busloads of crime buffs. Italian-American organizations argued, somewhat illogically, that by designating the house, the Government would be honoring Capone, thus defaming their ethnic group. Said Robert Allegrini, executive director of the Joint Civic Commission of Italian Americans: "We shouldn't be haunted by Capone's ghost 50 years later." Daunted by the furor, Levell withdrew his proposal last week, explaining, "I still feel the house is historically significant, but not at the cost of hurting the Italian- American community...
Precedent, though, is not encouraging. Last year the Greek Justice Minister overruled a court decision favoring an Italian extradition request for Palestinian Abdel Osama Al-Zomar, wanted for a bloody attack on a Rome synagogue that killed a two-year-old boy and wounded 34 people. The Minister decreed that Al-Zomar's actions fell "within the domain of the struggle to regain the independence of his homeland." Such frustrating episodes may explain why U.S. authorities occasionally resort to more subterranean alternatives to extradition. In 1987 Lebanese plane hijacker Fawaz Younis was lured out of Cyprus by U.S. agents posing...
...those who argue that the FSX will help Japan become a major power in civil aviation, the deal's supporters reply that Tokyo already has entered the field with willing help from U.S. aerospace firms. Japan is developing an advanced jet engine with U.S., British, Italian and West German companies and is building a rocket that may launch a two-ton satellite into orbit...
British soccer has been plagued by a series of fatal mishaps. During a 1985 soccer game in Bradford, England, fire engulfed the grandstand, killing 56 fans. The same year, 39 people died at Heysel Stadium in Brussels after Liverpool hooligans attacked supporters of the rival Italian team, touching off a lethal stampede. As a result, the Union of European Football Associations banned English clubs indefinitely and barred Liverpool from playing in Europe for an additional three seasons...