Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, reported Nader, U.S. pets may actually eat better than their owners. While much food for human consumption bears no nutritional information on package labels, dog-food makers stress the nutritional value of their products. As a result, Nader said, some low-income families take to eating dog food...
Those are really two aspects of the same problem. If your country is moving to a higher level of prosperity and the better life, then no one is going to listen to the rabble-rousers. But if you get more and more hungry and angry people, then Communists will find it easier to recruit people as guerrillas. If South Viet Nam is lost, the chances are that whoever forms the Communist government will want to be the successor of French Indo-China, which included Laos and Cambodia. Whether they will be able to go on and create a insurrection...
...finance and economics ministers of the Six did somewhat better. After considering proposals from the Common Market's Executive Commission for joint economic planning and budgetary discipline to deal with overheated European economies, the ministers agreed -in principle-to set up a unified monetary mechanism. The details would have to be worked out later. Nevertheless, France's Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West Germany's Economics Minister Karl Schiller called the agreement an important step. Giscard added, perhaps too optimistically, that it was "the first time we have monetary solidarity among...
...been made. Targeted by its drafters to go into operation Jan. 1, 1971, Nordek would unify the Scandinavian economies if the road to Brussels should still be blocked. Or, if membership negotiations were under way, it could serve as their joint bargaining agent with the Common Market for a better deal...
...minds made better by their presence...