Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developed a booming mining and metals industry. Despite its proximity to the East bloc, 80% of Finnish trade heads west, where Britain is its best customer. Finland will thus suffer if Britain enters the Common Market without it, but the Soviets are not likely to encourage Finland to seek closer ties to the mart...
...larger than his fellow conferees. The No. 1 topic was Britain's application for admission to the Common Market. In a ten-minute speech, the French President said, in effect: We are going to have to talk together an awful lot before we decide anything. He called for closer political ties among the Six and proposed another summit meeting some time this year to discuss the problems posed by Britain's desire to join...
...completely get his own way. In a remarkably frank speech, Italian President Giuseppe Saragat tweaked De Gaulle by calling for British admission and by thanking the U.S. for its role in rebuilding war-shattered Western Europe. And the Dutch, fearing that De Gaulle intends to use closer ties among the Six to make it harder for anyone else to get in, flatly refused to go along with De Gaulle's summit proposal unless the British question was taken up at once by the Common Market. After much shaking of his presidential head, De Gaulle gave...
...their search for lower labor costs, many U.S. manufacturers have cast their eyes-and their production lines -as far as Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. Now they have begun to look closer to home. Almost unnoticed, the dusty, teeming, and often decrepit towns just south of the 2,000-mile U.S.Mexican border are undergoing the quiet beginnings of what one U.S. textile maker says could be "a massive industrial program...
When he took over in 1965, NBC-TV's John Chancellor was the first working newsman ever to direct the Voice of America. His intention was to help shed its "institutional sound" - which too often was a bureaucratic defense of the incumbent Administration - and steer it closer to realistic journalism...