Word: milan
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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...
...pair are traveling together at a time of troubles for the church. An inquisition is raging against heretics, casting a dark and menacing shadow over the whole era. The Emperor in Milan and the Pope in Avignon are battling for ascendancy over the Holy Roman Empire. The Emperor, Louis IV, has sent William to the abbot of a rich and powerful Benedictine monastery in Italy on a mission of conciliation. The Franciscan and Adso arrive at the abbey right after the body of a young monk has been discovered. Suicide or murder is suspected. The abbot, aware of William...
...friend Milan Kundera, the Czech novelist, makes a plea for "the small cultures" from the wounded heart of Central Europe...
...charge of the detonation attempt, the first of its kind in Italy, was Rolf Lennart Abersten, 46, a Swedish engineer who has worked in Milan as an explosives specialist for the past eleven years. The temperature of lava sometimes reaches some 1800° F; to prevent the heat from setting off the charges, Abersten and his associates devised an ingenious protective system. It called for installation of four rows of steel tubes in the west side of the old lava wall (lava from the eruption was moving along the wall's east side). Each of the metal tubes contained...
...runway makes a fragile border between celebrators and the celebrated that is meant to break at the end of the show, when the designer is led out by his corps of models for cheers and accolades. "It's the worst moment," reflects Gianni Versace, who showed successfully in Milan this year after three seasons of apostasy. Then he adds, "But I force myself to do it for the good of my business...