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Amid a global financial crisis and intense efforts to prepare for the introduction of the European Union common currency (the euro) and the computer problem caused by the year 2000 date change, ...
Italy
Italy's thriving economy soon confronted severe challenges. Among these, first, were famines, which affected most of Italy in the years 1339-40, 1346-47, 1352-53, and 1374-75, and a general expansion ...
colonialism, Western
By the turn of the 20th century, the map of Africa looked like a huge jigsaw puzzle, with most of the boundary lines having been drawn in a sort of game of give-and-take played in the foreign offices ...
JAPAN
On January 5 Tomiichi Murayama, Japan's first Socialist prime minister in five decades, resigned. Six days later both houses of the Diet (parliament) designated Ryutaro Hashimoto (see BIOGRAPHIES), ...
Economic Affairs
Industrywide consolidation, including significant cross-border transactions involving European banks and American securities firms, continued to reshape the global banking and financial services ...
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
After a long period of uncertainty and introspection, the European Community (EC)--or the European Union, as it became known after the Maastricht Treaty on European Union entered into force on ...
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