Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration action is aimed primarily at Italy, whose exports to the U.S. have zoomed from 10 million lbs. in 1975 to 110 million lbs. last year. At that rate, the U.S. industry contends, Italian pasta could account for 20% of the $1.3 billion U.S. market by 1988 or 1989. American manufacturers claim that European pastamakers compete unfairly in this country because they receive export subsidies from their governments...
...that new city councilor is Alfred W. LaRosa--as observers are predicting--about with another Italian from East Cambridge by the name of Vellucci could spark its share of fireworks come November...
...Square taken moments before he shot the Pope, Agca identified Bulgarian Defendant Sergei Antonov. It was the first time he had claimed that the former representative of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines was in the square at the time of the shooting. Agca also accused Propaganda Due, a / secret Italian Masonic lodge, of the 1983 kidnaping of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee in hopes of winning Agca's freedom through a prisoner exchange. He insisted that the girl was still alive...
...that the Soviets are able to get three or four bids for a single transaction. A valuable piece of high-tech gadgetry can sail a circuitous route before it "jumps the wall," in Customs agents' parlance, to the East bloc. Last month U.S. marshals arrested Marino Pradetto, 46, the Italian operator of a West German electronics firm who was in California for a trade fair, and charged him with illegal diversion of a powerful VAX II/780 mainframe computer to Czechoslovakia through San Jose, Haiti and Switzerland...
English soccer teams were under virtual quarantine last week in the wake of the Brussels rampage by Liverpool fans that left 38 dead, most of them Italian followers of Juventus, a team from Turin. First the Union of European Football Associations banned all English clubs from playing in European championship tournaments for "an indefinite period." Then the International Football Federation excluded English professional teams from international competition. England's national team was exempted, however, enabling it to remain in World Cup competition. English soccer officials called the global ban excessive...