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	Lawrence of Arabia . Emerging Middle East . Ottoman: Sick Man of Europe \| PBS
		The Ottoman Empire in 1914 was commonly known as 'the sick man of Europe', a sign that the once-great power was crumbling.
		The Turks had dominated the Eastern Mediterranean for half a millennium, controlling vast swathes of Central Europe, Arab lands as far down as Egypt and had at one stage been knocking on the doors of Vienna and Venice.
		The Ottoman Empire existed for more than 500 years stretching across Central Europe and the Middle East.
	www.pbs.org /lawrenceofarabia/features/non_flash/ottoman1.html (99 words)

	Chapter 55. The Transference of Evil. § 4. The Transference of Evil in Europe. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. ...
		People in the Orkney Islands will sometimes wash a sick man, and then throw the water down at a gateway, in the belief that the sickness will leave the patient and be transferred to the first person who passes through the gate.
		Often in Europe, as among savages, an attempt is made to transfer a pain or malady from a man to an animal.
		Grave writers of antiquity recommended that, if a man be stung by a scorpion, he should sit upon an ass with his face to the tail, or whisper in the animal’s ear, “A scorpion has stung me”; in either case, they thought, the pain would be transferred from the man to the ass.
	www.bartleby.com /196/135.html (1491 words)

	Sick man of Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 19th century the Ottoman Empire was dismissed by Nicholas I of Russia as "the sick man of Europe" because it was increasingly falling under the financial control of the European powers and had lost territory in a series of disastrous wars.
		In the 1970s the United Kingdom was known by this name because of industrial strife and poor economic performance compared to other European countries.
		In May 2005 The Economist attributed this title to Italy, covering "The real sick man of Europe".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe (245 words)

	ESR \| May 20, 2002 \| The sick man is Europe
		Until recently Europe was thought to be the most civilized and most refined group of nations in the world.
		Commentators are trying to figure out if the Europe today is a repeat of its own worrisome 1930's past, a time of upheaval similar to the 1960's in America, or simply entering into a time of social decay experienced in America, Canada, and even Britain in the late 1970's and 1980's.
		Hence there is no longer a sick man in Europe but a collectivized gaggle of sick, lame, and decrepit nations remembering the good times long past yet reliving the crisis of decades in months.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0502/0502europe.htm (776 words)

	gift Sick_man_of_Europe - gift-report.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The phrase "sick man of Europe" is commonly attributed to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, referring to the Ottoman Empire, because it was increasingly falling under the financial control of the European powers and had lost territory in a series of disastrous wars.
		Petersburg, to Lord John Russell, in 1853, in the run up to the Crimean War, quote Nicholas I of Russia as saying that the Ottoman Empire was a a sick manâ”a very sick man", a "man" who "has fallen into a state of decrepitude", or a "sick man...
		Beginning in the late 1950s and into the early 1980s, the United Kingdom was sometimes known as the sick man of Europe because of industrial strife and poor economic performance compared to other European countries, partly because of World War II.
	www.gift-report.com /Sick_man_of_Europe (636 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Sick Man Is Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		At the euphoric Lisbon 'dot.com summit', in March 2000, Europe expressed the ambition to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world in ten years time, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion ('capitalism with a human face').
		However, even in Germany, which used to be Europe's economic powerhouse but is now generally considered to be the sick man of Europe, it is beginning to dawn upon policymakers that something is fundamentally wrong.
		Europe's high structural unemployment is a man-made disaster and there is little sense of urgency to substantially reduce it.
	www.techcentralstation.com /042403M.html (1656 words)

	The Sick Man of Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Eastern Europe had already, to the delight of Liberals and the alarm of conservatives, entered upon a path of development that superficially resembled the West's, the development of a system of completed national states.
		The result of their activities was to intensify enormously the conflicts and dangers of the European situation and to bring Europe to the verge of all war that was averted only by the painful retreat and humiliation of two of the parties to the controversy.
		Almost no one in the vicinity was pleased; the recovery of the Sick Man of Europe was an upsetting idea to his heirs, the Balkan states.
	mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/sickman.html (2289 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - Comment - Sick man of Europe
		He was once regularly and justifiably accused of government by focus group, of allowing his policies to be dictated by the calculations of a cold-eyed band of pollsters and spin doctors.
		Now he is his own man, hardened and scarred by backbench rebellions, geopolitical scraps and a hostile media firing on him from both left and right.
		The sick man of Europe, it is clear, is the EU itself.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /comment.cfm?id=436972004 (1205 words)

	The 'hordes' linger in Europe's memory: Turkey's EU membership -DAWN - International; 02 October, 2004
		ISTANBUL: When Europe first saw the Turks nearly 1,000 years ago, Byzantine historians believed they had met "the hordes of the Apocalypse"; ten centuries later, Europe's collective memory is still marked by prejudice against this nation now knocking at the EU's door.
		To this earliest recollection of the Turks' parentage with the terrible Huns who ravaged Europe half a millennium earlier, traditional European history has added the more recent memory of the threat they posed to Christian Europe after their conversion to Islam in the 10th century.
		As the once mighty and opulent Ottoman Empire declined and the Age of Enlightenment spread across Europe, the image of the Turk merged with that of Islam as a civilization impossible to modernize and despotic by nature.
	www.dawn.com /2004/10/02/int15.htm (575 words)

	What Investment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Much of the heartache in Europe can be laid at the door of the unstable global economy over the past three years, but that will be no consolation to investors who have seen thousands of pounds shaved off their investments during this time.
		Europe’s lack of resilience to the global downturn can be explained by a number of factors, says Marsden.
		Europe, he says, still looks very cheap relative to other economies and, since the stock market here remains subdued, there is plenty of potential for a bounce.
	whatinvestment.money.msn.co.uk /msnwi85.htm (1432 words)

	► why was the ottoman empire called the sick man of europe
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		Why was the Ottoman Empire often called the "sick man of Europe" at the beginning of the twentieth.
		And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
	www.faq-site.com /faqs/161/why-was-the-ottoman-empire-called-the-sick-man-of-europe.html (485 words)

	The Economic Ruin of Europe
		Also for the past 20 years, Europe has suffered an average unemployment rate more than 50 percent higher than the U.S. During the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, the U.K. had a much lower rate of economic growth than Germany, France and Italy.
		By the time Margaret Thatcher took over in 1979 as prime minister, the U.K. was known as the "sick man of Europe." At that time, Britain had the most socialized economy in Europe and, as would be expected, the worst economic performance.
		The danger for Europe is that the Germans may enter a deflationary spiral, like Japan, and drag the rest of Europe down with them.
	www.cato.org /pub_display.php?pub_id=2997 (934 words)

	The Sick Man of Europe, 1850-1922 (from Ottoman Empire) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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		As this empire grew by conquering lands of the Byzantine Empire and beyond, it came to include at the height of its power all of Asia Minor; the countries of the Balkan Peninsula; the islands of the...
		In the story of the fifth voyage of Sinbad the Sailor in the collection Arabian Nights, a character known as the Old Man of the Sea begs Sinbad to carry him across a brook and then refuses to be dislodged from his shoulders.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-206012?ct= (976 words)

	Pejmanesque: THE NEW "SICK MAN OF EUROPE" . . .
		That Europe as an entity is sick and the European Union as an institution is in disorder cannot be denied.
		What ought to depress partisans of European unity in the aftermath of the rejection of its proposed constitution by France and the Netherlands is not so much the foundering of this ridiculous document as the response of the leadership to the crisis, especially in France and Germany.
		He recognized that the totalitarian instinct lies deep in European philosophy and mentality--in Rousseau and Hegel as well as Marx and Nietzsche--and must be fought against with all the strength of liberalism, which he felt was rooted in Anglo-Saxon individualism.
	www.pejmanesque.com /archives/010686.html (722 words)

	40 years ago city had smog and rickets. . . now sick man of Europe is getting better - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		WOMEN in Glasgow's Easterhouse stand eight times the chance of dying of a heart attack than those in affluent Bearsden, but one man claims the 'sick man of Europe' is recovering.
		However, you couldn't expect the man for whom Monday morning was the best morning of the week, to turn his back on his life's work.
		He took early retirement from being a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Infirmary to be President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and now that his three years in the post is over, he works with the Scottish Heath Executive in Edinburgh, chairing the national advisory committee on cardiology.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/opinion/7013850.html (956 words)

	Sick man of Europe -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Sick man of Europe -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		In the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s the (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) United Kingdom was also known by this name because of industrial strife and poor economic performance compared to other European countries.
		Some people even argued it would be the first developed nation to return to the status of a developing country.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/sick_man_of_europe.htm (82 words)

	Winds of Change.NET: Russia: The Sick Man of Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Winds of Change.NET: Russia: The Sick Man of Europe
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	www.windsofchange.net /archives/russia_the_sick_man_of_europe-print.php (242 words)

	theparliament.com - European Commission - the sick man of Europe? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A staggering €74 million is spent every year by the European Commission on invalidity benefits it was revealed in the European Parliament today.
		According to UK Labour MEP, Eluned Morgan, author of the parliamentary report, there is a 20 per cent financial incentive for staff to take invalidity benefits over a normal pension.
		When a staff member retires on invalidity, it is assumed that he or she would have continued working until retirement, and the calculation of their benefit is altered in line with the pay increases of their grade until they would have retired at 65.
	www.eupolitix.com /EN/News/200305/4ec797e9-904a-4eeb-a479-c1f013df3e4c.htm (397 words)

	Blair in new attack on sick and disabled
		When a person visits his/her doctor and the doctor issues a sick note, that doctor is making a professional judgement based on his knowledge of illness and of that patient and is advising him/her to refrain from work for a certain period of time.
		The other benefit, Disability and Sickness Allowance will be much more difficult to claim and one would need to be literally at death's door to qualify.
		New patients, after receiving their sick notes, will have to go and see the clerk, who will decide which jobs the patient could do and what jobs are available.
	www.marxist.com /blair-attack-sick-disabled100206.htm (1107 words)

	Expatica's Belgian news in English: Belgium the sick man of Europe?
		Expatica's Belgian news in English: Belgium the sick man of Europe?
		BRUSSELS - The number of Belgian employees on long-term sick leave is steadily rising, it emerged on Wednesday.
		This means that by the end of 2003, 200 000 workers were on sick benefit.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=10286 (207 words)

	Causes of WWI - background
		The argument which follows suggests that Europe in 1914 was RIPE for war to break out - that the causes of World War One went back long before 1914, and had so set Europe at odds that it only needed a tiny spark to push all Europe into war.
		Another thing that the countries of Europe did was to train all their young men so that if there was a war they could call, not only on the standing army, but on huge numbers of trained reservists.
		The countries of Europe thought that the alliance system would act as a deterrent to war; in fact it tied the countries together so that, when one country went to war, the others felt themselves obliged to follow.
	www.johndclare.net /causes_WWI2.htm (1444 words)

	The Productivity Gap
		In the words of Europe's most savvy finance minister, Chancellor Gordon Brown of the UK, they are promising they "will learn from American competition and enterprise.
		Europe's deficits are the result of massive overspending by the public sector America's deficit, on the other hand, will result from a tax cut that puts more money into the hands of consumers to spend in the private sector.
		Europe's leaders see a productivity gap and feel called upon to develop government programs to eliminate it.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/550isxbn.asp (728 words)

	Channel4.com - The First World War - text only
		The 'sick man of Europe' proved to be in robust health, and the Allies were finally forced to withdraw in December with the loss of 60,000 men and no strategic gains made.
		In May 1915, Germany (in partnership with Austria-Hungary) launched its major offensive of the year against Russian troops stationed in Galicia, a region of central Europe extending from the northern slopes of the Carpathian mountains to the present-day Romanian border.
		The offensive proved so successful that, by the end of the summer, Germany controlled an area that, today, is covered by Poland, Lithuania and parts of Belarus and the Ukraine.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/F/firstworldwar/overview_1915_t.html (666 words)

	Sick Man of Europe: Next Generation (was Michael's question)
		The Turkish "revolution" of 1919-1922 had broken out in a poor economy, in the Sick Man of Europe, which had not had the ability to confront the imperialism powers head on.
		Although Turkey failed to achieve this objective, and in these days she is back to being the Sick Man of Europe once again, the regime in Turkey remains totalitarian to this day.
		Sick Man of Europe: Next Generation (was Michael's question) Charles Brown
	www.mail-archive.com /pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg60939.html (1153 words)

	@rgumente » General » Europe's new sick man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The same is not the case for the Social Democrats who -- for geostrategic reasons, self-interest of the established political class and the overall advantages to the Romanian economy from integration with Europe -- must negotiate the tension between the reforms demanded by the E.U. and the safety-net and protectionist concerns of its base.
		From a geostrategic perspective, a Romania isolated from Europe could become a source of instability -- a breeding ground for organized crime that could spill over into the E.U., and possibly a failed state.
		Ireland used to have some claim to 'sickest man of europe' status a few decades back.
	www.argumente.ro /general/0837028468 (886 words)

	Chirac 'sick man of Europe,' say French:- - World News - Webindia123.com
		French President Jacques Chirac has replaced Britain as the sick man of Europe, according to the French media.
		As Chirac headed to the EU summit in Brussels Thursday, his political weakness after losing the referendum on the European constitution was highlighted by several French newspapers.
		Left-wing newspaper Liberation Thursday branded him the sick man of Europe, a phrase the French traditionally reserved for Britain.
	news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=89317&cat=World (211 words)

	CSC World - June 2004-August 2004
		Under more pessimistic growth assumptions, it may take a generation.” The answer, she says, is international cooperation on monetary and fiscal policy to promote simultaneous economic growth in many countries.
		Depending on how you define “Europe,” that is. Some on the Continent are asking whether Turkey — one of four nations whose applications for membership are still pending — belongs in the EU.
		Forget that Turkey is already a member of NATO, or that Tsar Nicholas I once called the country “the sick man of Europe.” The naysayers suggest that Europe ends where Islam begins.
	www.csc.com /aboutus/cscworld/jun_aug_04/research_news.shtml (846 words)

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