Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proceeded from the existing power realities in the Middle East. To begin with, he had to take into account Arab nationalism; he sought to encourage its legitimate development. He sought to create conditions of stability so that Britain and the U.S. might withdraw their troops while retaining their commercial access to the area. He recognized that while the West had no intention of securing its economic interests indefinitely by the overt use of force, neither did it intend to be deprived of those interests by force...
...Saigon, Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was the most seriously disturbed, for Red penetration of Cambodia would outflank his nation and give the Communist Chinese access to the Gulf of Siam. Diem rushed his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu to the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh to negotiate a settlement of the border question, and the Cambodian radio announced that terms had been discussed in a "relaxed atmosphere." Sihanouk promised, as soon as he returns from his current junket to Peking, to pay a visit to President Diem in Saigon...
...firms will be able to gain equal access to all common market countries by establishing themselves in any one. While wages and other production costs now vary among common market countries, European economists expect them eventually to level out-as they have already started to in the European coal and steel nations. In view of this, smart companies are already picking plant sites on the basis of the best, not the cheapest, labor. Chicago's Outboard Marine, for example, decided to establish a plant in Bruges, Belgium, where wages are now relatively high, because it found that Belgians work...
...area, consisting of the United Kingdom and five other countries outside the common market, to form a community of more than 240 million potential customers. Many U.S. firms are holding back to see if this will happen; they would prefer to get into England under lower tariffs, thus gain access to the Commonwealth trading area as well as the common market. But foreign traders contend that now is the best time for U.S. firms to enter the market area. Says Lawyer Ball: "There are dangers in waiting. Once producers in other countries are established, it may be extremely difficult...
...have done the nation a great service in your reporting on Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine. Actually, the behavior of Mr. Goldfine is in no better taste than that of other well-known immigrants who have peopled the underworld, and his ready access to the number two man in our Government is keenly resented by the millions of little people whose only contact with big Government is a vote every four years...