Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most other European countries, the NATO decision to station cruise missiles on the country's soil would be hotly debated by voters. The miserable state of the national economy would topple governments elsewhere. (Public debt amounts to about $4,000 for every Italian citizen; inflation is running in excess of 16% annually.) Issues exist, but they are not presented as matters to be commented on by the electorate...
ITALY: Guido Carli, a former governor of the Bank of Italy and a board member, sent his forecasts from Milan, where he was campaigning for the Italian Senate in next Sunday's national elections. Said he: "I thought it would be better to jump in than stay on the sidelines criticizing." According to Carli, Italy faces perhaps the most serious troubles of all West European countries. He warned that unless the budget deficit, which is currently running at an annual rate of $60 billion, is reined in, "Italy will be prevented from participating in the recovery of other nations...
This year the rule restricting the challengers to materials obtainable and technology available in their own countries has been rescinded, which may have helped bring about the record turnout of foreign entries: three Australian, one French, one Canadian, one Italian and one English. "The more the scarier," frets Commodore Henry H. Anderson Jr. of the N.Y.Y.C.'S Cup Committee. Not that a realistic chance of victory has ever been central to the quest...
...their language and thereby enforce an early form of affirmative action: by 1899 nearly 18,000 pupils in Cincinnati divided their school time between courses given in German and in English, thus providing employment for 186 German-speaking teachers. In 1917 San Francisco taught German in eight primary schools, Italian in six, French in four and Spanish in two. Yet when most cities consented to teach immigrant children in their native Chinese or Polish or Yiddish or Gujarati, the clearly stated goal was to transform the students as quickly as possible into speakers of English and full participants in society...
When a renowned Italian expert in semiotics, the arcane science of signs, sets out to write a thriller, the resulting fiction is bound to bristle with more obscure clues, mysterious ciphers and symbolic happenings than were ever conjured up by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So it is with Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, a Sherlock Holmesian fantasy in a medieval setting...