Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowed inflation to just over 6% for the past nine months, but at the highly unpopular cost of wage and price controls and curbs on strikes. The Tupamaros have not been able to persuade Uruguay's powerful Moscow-oriented labor unions, with their 240,000 members, to make common cause. Even so, they can rely on a fertile popular base as long as the economic squeeze lasts...
Group Stimulus. One of their discoveries was the prevalence in combat of a state of tension and excitement strong enough to block sensations of pain and keep the adrenaline surging. The study also confirmed the common-sensical suspicion that fighting in a group, in direct contact with the enemy, is an important stimulus to heroics. Men wounded away from battle -by mines or long-distance rockets -usually sense pain and stop what they are doing...
...Eurodollar amounts to a new and highly controversial form of international currency. Last week in Strasbourg, Vice President Raymond Barre of the Common Market warned the European Parliament that Eurodollars have become "one of our continent's top-priority problems...
Nordek will introduce a third grouping into the European economic picture. With a population of 21 million and a combined gross national product of $50 billion, the four countries already constitute the European Common Market's second largest customer after the U.S. Under Nordek, they will remain in the seven-member European Free Trade Association,* through which four-fifths of intra-Scandinavian trade currently passes duty-free. They plan to establish a customs union that will free all trade among Nordic countries and enact common external tariffs against non-EFTA members. Most important, they will work toward closer economic...
Almost as common as a taxi driver's conviction that his experiences would make a terrific book is the delusion that one's fascinating family would make a colorful chronicle. John H. Davis, 39, who has been working on educational projects for the past ten years, first thought that he had a novel in the shirtsleeves-to-Social Register saga of his forebears and contemporaries, the Bouviers. When a cousin named Jacqueline became America's First Lady and then a fabulous folk heroine, it was immediately obvious to the highly motivated men of the book business that...