Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year

Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year
2010: Austerity — “enforced or extreme economy.” Extensively looked up after Greece imposed a series of strict austerity measures, including cutting public sector salaries and increasing taxes, to fight a debt crisis that eventually spread to other European countries.
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AMERICAblog’s John Aravosis got a chance to interview Greek opposition leader, and former Greek foreign minister, George Panadreou recently. Papandreou heads PASOK, the socialist party of Greece, and he is the president of the Socialist International. In the third part of a three-part interview, Papandreou talks about Barack Obama.
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