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Italy's Giorgio Moroder paired up with Donna Summer in 1977 to release the electronic disco song " I Feel Love ", and its programmed beats would be a major influence on the later synthpop sound.
Ciano was skeptical of Mussolini's war plans and knew that Italy's armed forces were ill-prepared for a major war.
In the spring of 1943 following the Axis defeat in North Africa, other major setbacks on the Eastern Front, and the Anglo-American assault on Sicily looming on the horizon, Ciano turned against prosecution of the doomed war and actively pushed for Italy's exit from the conflict.
Italy's ideas for maintaining the balance of power in Europe clearly gravitated towards major alliances and Italy's reasoning for not siding with the Central Powers was that the Triple Alliance was a defensive alliance, but Germany and Austria – Hungary had taken the offensive.
Silvio Berlusconi, the former Prime Minister of Italy, is the major shareholder of-by far-Italy's biggest ( and de facto only ) private free TV company, Mediaset, Italy's biggest publisher, Mondadori, and Italy's biggest advertising company Publitalia.
Over the next two decades Salvi was one of Italy's leading tenors, singing roles with most of the country's major opera houses.
With this strategy, Rivera helped to beat the hosts Mexico in the quarterfinal and West Germany in the semi-final, in which Rivera played a major role in one of the most entertaining games in World Cup history, scoring Italy's 4th and winning goal in a 4 – 3 victory.
* Italy's Christian Democracy dominated the politics of Italy for almost 50 years as the major party in every coalition that governed the country from 1944 until its demise amid a welter of corruption allegations in 1992 – 1994.
The road ran along the southern edge of the pancake-flat Pianura Padana within sight of the northern foothills of Italy's Appennine mountains, crossing numerous tributary rivers of the Po, notably the Rubicone near Rimini-although it is not certain that this river is the same as the famous Rubicon crossed by Julius Caesar in 49 BC ; and the river Trebbia near Piacenza, site of the first of Hannibal's three major victories over the Romans during his invasion of Italy.
Italy's club sides have won 27 major European trophies, making them the most successful nation in European football.
Soon, interest arose from major teams, such as Italy's U. C.
The Fininvest group is composed of a number important companies: Mediolanum ( an insurance and banking company ), Medusa ( a major Italian film production company ), Mondadori ( one of Italy's leading publishing companies ), A. C. Milan ( a football team ) and Mediaset, which is currently the biggest private entertainment competitor in Italy, owning three channels ( Canale 5, Italia 1, Rete 4 ), two channels in Spain, Endemol, a digital TV broadcasting network and many other companies related to TV broadcasting.
The first major actions began immediately after Italy's entry into the war on June 11, 1940, including the siege of Malta.
Due to its strategic position, the station is an important trading node, and one of the major railway stations in Italy's north-west.
The Leaning Bell Tower, dubbed as the country's own version of Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa, found in this municipality serves as a major historical attraction.
Fourthly, he promised to raise the minimum monthly pension rate to 516 euros ; and fifthly, he would suppress the crime wave by introducing police officers to patrol all local zones and areas in Italy's major cities.

Italy's and exports
Italy's pasta exports represented 53 % of its total production in 2007.

Italy's and companies
Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, accompanied by a member of our staff, on May 10 toured plants of two of Italy's biggest companies -- Fiat, the auto producer, and Olivetti, maker of typewriters and calculating machines.
In the last years, new productive sectors have developed: manufacture, automotive, and especially oil extraction: in 2009 people employed by Eni in this area were 230 ( of which over 50 % from Basilicata ) and about 1, 800 were employed in activities directly generated by Eni ’ s operations, distributed in 80 companies of which over 50 % from Basilicata ; the region produced about, meeting 11 percent of Italy's domestic oil demand.
In 2003 the company merged with Italy's Zamperla, but the companies eventually split apart again and in 2006 both companies began making Spinning Wild Mouse coasters under their own names.

Italy's and by
Following reform in 2005, which was prompted by takeover scandals, the bank has lost exclusive antitrust authority in the credit sector, which is now shared with Italy's Antitrust Authority.
* November 2003: Italy's Golden Player-the best Italian player of the last 50 years, selected by the Italian Football Federation.
In October 1939 Mussolini had considered making a public statement to the Italian people that would announce Fascist Italy's abandonment of hostility to the ideology of Stalin's Soviet Union by claiming that Stalin's regime had effectively dissolved Bolshevism and that it had been replaced by a Slavic fascism.
Corradini's views were part of a wider set of perceptions within the right-wing Italian Nationalist Association ( ANI ), which claimed that Italy's economic backwardness was caused by corruption in its political class, liberalism, and division caused by " ignoble socialism ".
By 1943, after Italy faced multiple military failures, complete reliance and subordination of Italy to Germany, and Allied invasion of Italy, and corresponding international humiliation, Mussolini was removed as head of government and arrested by the order of King Victor Emmanuel III who proceeded to dismantle the Fascist state and declared Italy's switching of allegiance to the Allied side.
La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).
Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital in 1865 and, in an effort to modernise the city, the old market in the Piazza del Mercato Vecchio and many medieval houses were pulled down and replaced by a more formal street plan with newer houses.
After the betting scandal of the early 1980 ( the Calcio Scommesse scandal ) it was decided to clean up the image of Italian football by assigning referees randomly instead of picking them, in order to clear up all the suspicions and accusations always accompanying Italy's football life.
The dominance of the Christian Democratic party during much of the postwar period lent continuity and comparative stability to Italy's political situation, mainly dominated by the attempt of keeping the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) out of power, to maintain Cold War equilibrium in the region.
Despite this, however, Italy's alleged 1987 GDP growth of a phenomenal 18 %, it was shortly re-overtaken by both France and the United Kingdom during the 1990s, when Italy's economic growth was particularly stagnant, with an average of 1. 23 % compared to an EU average of 2. 28 %.
In addition, the most recent data show that Italy's spending in R & D in 2011 was equal to 1. 1 % of GDP ( 12th in the world by expenditures ), below the European average of 1. 7 % and the Lisbon Strategy target of devoting 3 % of GDP to research and development activities.
According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.
This was especially damaging to Ribbentrop, as he always assured Hitler that " Italy's attitude is determined by the Rome-Berlin Axis ".
The League of Nations condemned Italy's aggression and imposed economic sanctions in November 1935, but the sanctions were largely ineffective since they did not ban the sale of oil or close the Suez Canal ( controlled by Britain ).
Nonetheless, his tiny principality was tormented by domestic conflict partly as a result of Louis ' indecisiveness, and also because the majority of the population was of Italian descent ; many of them supported the fascist regime of Italy's Benito Mussolini.
* 1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily.
Occitan (; ; ), known also as Lenga d ' òc by its native speakers (; ), is a Romance language spoken in southern France, Italy's Occitan Valleys, Monaco, and Spain's Val d ' Aran: the regions sometimes known unofficially as Occitania.
Although Italy's dominance as a centre of manuscript production began to decline, especially after the Gothic War ( 535 – 554 ) and the invasions by the Lombards, its manuscripts — and more important, the scripts in which they were written — were distributed across Europe.
National defence in the face of an aggressive world power is, by arrangement, the responsibility of Italy's armed forces.

Italy's and sector
Mussolini argued that Italian Fascism acknowledged the positive achievements of dynamic and heroic capitalism for its contribution to industrialism and its technical developments, but that it did not favour supercapitalism, which he claimed was incompatible with Italy's agricultural sector.
Italy's participation in the Iraq war, with the control over the Nassiriya sector was marked by the 2003 Nasiriyah bombing, in which 17 soldiers were killed, and by an incident with the US, concerning the death, by friendly fire, of a SISMI agent, Nicola Calipari, during the March 2005 rescue of Giuliana Sgrena, a reporter from Il Manifesto.

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