Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lush travel allowance when she switched this fall to Florida State University. It was also -- in the trade's patois -- a "two- cushioned" slot, with a job for her physiologist husband David. "We just had to do it," he says with a smile. So did Professor of Italian Aldo Scaglione, who left the University of North Carolina for a chair at New York University, the chance to shape an Italian studies center and -- a dollop of icing he requested -- an elegant apartment on Washington Square...
...Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, the 1963 film starring Sophia Loren, postwar Naples was awash with contraband cigarettes. Today the Italian city is afflicted with a more serious criminal commodity: heroin. Addiction among the young is so widespread that parents have begun to hire private eyes to keep a drug watch on their children...
...have their offspring shadowed and photographed. Pictures of children buying drugs or shooting up are quickly dispatched to the parents. The former carabiniere calls his detective agency Magnum P.I., but the joke ends there. "Drugs are a part of everyday life here," says Centracchio. While only a handful of Italian detective agencies engage in such familial sleuthing, the practice is spreading along with the plague of drug addiction...
Today Americana's population has swelled to 160,000, largely owing to waves of Portuguese, Italian and Japanese immigrants who came to Brazil. It looks like any other small Brazilian city. A tiny cluster of taller office buildings dwarfs a semi-industrial sprawl. Intermarriage has turned today's generation of Confederate descendants into darker-skinned Brazilians...
History does not offer much encouragement on the benefits of devaluation. The British pound and Italian lira dropped during much of the 1970s, while the West German mark and other Continental currencies rose. Yet at the end of the decade West Germany was enjoying a massive trade surplus and manageable inflation. Britain and Italy, meanwhile, languished under trade deficits and double-digit inflation. Sir James Goldsmith, the British financier, witnessed the process firsthand. Warns he: "Like drugs, devaluation gives you a breather, a small kick. Then it becomes an inflationary merry-go-round to , hell." Only when Britain began pumping...