Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traveling with Paul, an Italian sailor who was taking photos for a travel journal, and through his camera eye I saw people making do with what they had. Out of each ornately carved home there were electrical wires. Above several, for instance, there stood television antennae and generators. The villagers took from the land and from technology what was necessary. And no more...
...whose name has been synonymous with status and high fashion, it was a humiliating and humbling moment. Aldo Gucci, 81, former head of the Italian clothing and leather-goods company that bears his name, had pleaded guilty in January to evading $7.4 million in U.S. taxes, and last week he stood in a Manhattan federal court awaiting his sentence. "I feel very sorry, deeply sorry for what happened," said Gucci, in a halting, emotional voice...
...state of siege. Six magazines were closed down indefinitely, including Hoy, the journal of the centrist Christian Democratic Party. The London-based Reuters wire service had to close its operations in Santiago after transmitting a profile of Pinochet that referred to the President as an "archvillain." The Italian news agency ANSA was also shut down for disseminating what the government called "tendentious and false information that has offended the armed forces...
...family also unwittingly became embroiled in a New York scandal during the mid-1970s. Loews had bought a $40 million stake in the Franklin National Bank, which was sold to Michele Sindona, an Italian financier. When the bank later failed, Sindona was convicted of looting its assets, and Loews was sued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a bankruptcy trustee for breach of fiduciary duty and misuse of inside information. Without admitting any wrongdoing, Loews agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle the suits...
...Detroit makes cars Italian- style. -- A new American gold rush...