Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Florentine schools of art today open their doors only to year-round students; there are not summer courses or lectures. Only the most talented Italian students can win a place in these academies, although any foreign student able to pay full tuition may attend...
Tourists flock to the Italian galleries, but they don't seem to get crowded. The religious subjects inspire silence. There is little alternative to the countless Madonnas, Annunciations, and Saint Sebastians; those with a low tolerance for Renaissance art may lose patience quickly in Florence...
...Sierra Nevada is the nation's largest and most majestic mountain range. Towering above the Smokies and the Adirondacks, higher than the Rockies, nearly as long as the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps combined, the Sierras form a land of light. Snow-splashed peaks of shining white granite rise jaggedly above the desert to the east. To the west, forests of pine and redwoods and roll to meet the San Joaquin...
...really big South American deals, one Italian-based construction company is building an entire luxury real estate development on Uruguay's Punta del Este coastline. Yet none of the development is so far for sale to the public; instead, plots are being doled out like candy drops to favored Latin-American officials...
...corrupt foreign officials. All such expenditures, which can run into the millions of dollars on large engineering and construction projects, are completely tax deductible as a necessary cost of business. Italy passed a law in 1980 stating that payments to foreign officials to get business are perfectly legal for Italian companies. France has no law at all on foreign bribery. Explains the head of a medium-size French company doing extensive business in the Middle East: "The French authorities know quite well that you cannot deal in those countries without payoffs...