Word: processions
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...same time, however, Thatcher brought with her a philosophical challenge to the wider project, that of creating a common currency and central bank. Said European Commission President Jacques Delors: "Only the future will tell us if British entry into the EMS is not a pretext to slow down the process of integration." As a full-fledged EMS member, Thatcher is bound to sharpen the debate about the larger choices facing...
...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 will slow down the process of E.C. integration...
...next year and a half. The European monetary link, for example, will make it easier to reduce Britain's double-digit inflation rate. Sterling, already a petrocurrency at a time of soaring oil prices, will become even stronger. Pressure on Thatcher intensified also from other European capitals as the process of German unification reached its climax this month. In effect, Britain was being asked to weigh in as a countervailing force to Germany, which has Europe's most powerful economy. Even the French have been quietly but assiduously courting the British. Prior to unification day in Germany, a balance existed...
...offing. But that has happened before; no matter how alluring the vision or compelling the logic, the United States of Europe remains a distant goal that cannot be hurried even by its most enthusiastic supporters. In bad times as well as good, movement continues because the process has become irreversible...
Good intentions do not automatically translate into solid education. Some of the many experiments could turn out to be disasters. But then, argue home schoolers, public schools already are disasters. "The assumption is that the socialization process at public schools is normal and good," says Stephen Moitozo. "I'll tell you what normal isn't. It isn't the same kids in the same room doing the same thing at the same rate in the same way to achieve the same results because they're the same...