Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North End and have a romantic dinner in an Italian restaurant," says Christina C. Jacoby...
ITALY. The Italian economy barreled along with a 4% growth rate last year. But that performance was partly the result of stimulative government spending that left a huge budget deficit amounting to 15% of gross national product. Carli warned that runaway spending was a serious threat to long-term growth. "How long," he asked, "can a country survive with public debt taking an ever expanding share of GNP?" Growth will slow to about 2.2% this year, he predicted...
Despite the nagging debt problem, Italy has made enormous strides. Last year's inflation rate was only 4.3%, in contrast to more than 20% in 1980. Carli and Brittan agreed that Italy's GNP is now close to that of Britain and is probably larger if the thriving Italian underground economy is counted...
...provides a rare inside look at particle physics, a field increasingly dependent on huge and expensive machines -- and on scientists who are as adept at fund raising and politicking as they are at probing the subatomic world. Author Gary Taubes provides that view while chronicling the research that won Italian Physicist Carlo Rubbia a share of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the W and Z particles, which transmit the so- called weak nuclear force...
...year. That is a sum past reckoning in a country in which the average annual income is about $300. Such imported luxuries as Cuban cigars, French perfumes and Scotch whisky are available in hard-currency stores that Mozambicans seldom enter. "I often wonder who is helping whom," says an Italian engineer who has spent 17 years in the impoverished African nation...