Word: rome
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Four centuries ago, no body imagined that La Serenissima, the most serene republic, would come to this. In 1550, when much of Rome was a rubbish heap and wild pigs rooted in the Forum, Venice had never been invaded; its form of government - by council and committee, hardly a democracy in the modern sense but a vast improvement, in point of rights and liberty, on the feudal or city-boss regimes that prevailed elsewhere in Europe - had scarcely changed since the 14th century, and would continue until 1797, when Napoleon abolished...
...Italy, we have rediscovered the so-called incomes policy." The main source of worry and uncertainty in Italy, according to Carli, is the budget deficit, which now represents 15% of the G.N.P. and threatens to grow beyond that. The present political argument in Rome concerns whether to raise taxes or reduce government spending as a means of cutting the deficit, estimated at $50 billion in 1983. Carli is skeptical that government expenditures can be cut deeply enough to begin to solve the problem...
Given the historic nature of the step, there was remarkably little fanfare. The word came first from Rome. A few hours later, the State Department made it official. After a lapse of 117 years, the U.S. was establishing full diplomatic relations with the Vatican...
...defuse jealousies. The Fendis won. But, then, so did the Guccis. It was, perhaps inevitably, a draw. The Fendis would provide most of the basics, and Gucci the leather goods. The first designer wear should hit the streets on April 21, just in time for the Birthday of Rome celebration. What Solomonic cunning! What a gesture of fashion brotherhood! And-let's face it-what a relief. Who could ever have thought that uniforms would be so. . . important...
...early '30s for $25 a session, told her she was a classic example of bisexuality. H.D.'s own ideal was not a psychological abstraction but a statue of a sleeping hermaphrodite that she had seen as a young woman at the Diocletian Gallery in Rome...