Word: unificationism
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French President Francois Mitterrand insists that the E.C. can both deepen and widen: achieve the Community's goals and help Eastern Europe. But even Delors, "Mr. 1992," doubts whether that aim is achievable: he fears that Germany's preoccupation with making unification work and its commercial expansion into Eastern Europe...
But not to despair: Science has made some progress towards grand unification. In 1967, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam managed to unify two of the forces, the electromagnetic and the weak, into one "electroweak" force. Together with Harvard's Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon Glashow, the two won the 1979...
Aggravating the slump is a worldwide credit crunch that affects everyone from auto shoppers to Third World governments. Many lenders who were burned by bad loans in the 1980s are now prudent to a fault. Says Jacobs: "The banks are basically pushing panic buttons everywhere. They are saying, 'We don...
CAPTION: ESTIMATED COST OF UNIFICATION OVER 10 YEARS
No one is calling for Baker's resignation, nor should they. For the most part, he has worked tirelessly and performed well at a complex juncture in foreign affairs. In fact, Baker did not have his eye on the mounting dangers in the Persian Gulf because he was preoccupied with...