Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European unity, some of Europe's most vigorous and ubiquitous traders-notably the British-were conspicuously and wistfully left outside. Preferring its Commonwealth and U.S. customers, traditionally hesitant to subordinate its own island independence in any Continental supranational scheme, Britain had failed to persuade the Common Market to adopt a free-trade system that would have more loosely linked 17 European nations...
...Soviet concessions on the tough issues: the nature, methods and control of an inspection system. Meanwhile, argued Gore, the Soviet Union had made propaganda profits out of the conference by advertising the mere preliminaries of a test-ban agreement as substantial Soviet concessions. The U.S., said Gore, should 1) adopt firm, realistic goals for the test-ban conference, 2) set a timetable to keep it from dragging on indefinitely, and 3) force the Soviet negotiators to deal with the tough inspection issues instead of sliding around them...
Roger Blough and other U.S. steelmen are convinced that the best way to keep the U.S. steel industry healthy and competitive is to develop and adopt new processes faster than the rest of the world, continue rapid modernization of their plants and equipment. The U.S. has no monopoly on progress; foreign steel tycoons are also fully aware of the need to forge ahead, are engaged in a race whose stake is bigger markets, more efficiency, lower costs. The race requires enormous amounts of money, especially for the U.S., which carries the front runner's burden of keeping the world...
...Meanwhile, federal Internal Revenue agents were winding up a full-scale investigation of his financial affairs, which may roil Ole Earl's troubled waters. ¶ Bedeviled by what one of his psychiatrists called "the pressures of being the childless branch of a dynasty." Long announced plans to adopt 14-year-old David Rankin. whom he had met in the Galveston hospital. The boy. said the Governor, had beaten him at poker with a "Mexican straight" (a hand consisting of deuce. 4. 6. 8 and 10). The boy's surprised parents demurred at the adoption plans, but let David...
...Arab countries that surround us. Israel does not belong to any alliance. We, more than any other nation, need friends. The Germany of today is not the Germany of Hitler, and I refer to the geopolitical transformation that has taken place in Western Europe. It is our duty to adopt all measures to safeguard our peace and security...