Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eggs in Khodr's luggage found them to be filled with 24 lbs. of plastic explosives. A portable radio that he carried contained 36 detonators. Authorities in Italy believe Khodr may be a member of a pro-Iranian terrorist group called Hizballah and could possibly have ties to Hamadei. Italian Interior Minister Oscar Scalfaro asserted that the "arrest in Frankfurt is linked with that of the Lebanese taken in Milan," but offered no details. Connected or coincidental, last week's arrests demonstrated that terrorists are certainly not invincible...
Then came the students. Their massive marches in December, protesting a selective-admissions policy contained in a university reform bill, were in many ways quintessentially French. But the anarchist and Marxist youths who emerged among the students were reminiscent of young Italian zealots who consider the Communists stodgy old fogies...
...French public-service strike, the most serious in nearly two decades, looks more Italian every day. Workers are demanding, among other things, wage increases higher than the government's 3% ceiling. Police have had to clear picketers off railroad tracks at scores of stations, and labor unrest has spread to Communist-led work stoppages on Paris subways, in the electric-power service and on the docks. At week's end the rail strike finally seemed to be losing steam, but the unrest could be prolonged in other areas...
Chirac's supporters insist that all-out, Italian-style chaos is unlikely in France because the state and its authority reign supreme, whereas in Italy political institutions are less stable and established. Nonetheless, some political observers last week were starting to speculate about still another Italianization: the possible erosion of central-government authority. They speculated that the state's power could be chipped away from two directions. On one side, there are the protesting students, the spreading strikes and further demonstrations. On the other stands an ambitious government program for privatization, which, if it goes all the way, will sell...
...infusing the economy with fresh dynamism. The unrest, though, is decidedly not leading to new growth. As usual, the French have a word for it. The strike situation, they say, has become so confused that it is downright bordelique, or chaotic. That, of course, very probably comes from the Italian bordello...