Word: commonical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Czechoslovaks signed a new friendship pact between the two countries. The Czechoslovaks and Rumanians also discussed embarking upon a form of economic cooperation similar to the scheme that had been proposed by Tito. Under Tito's plan, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia will create a sort of two-country common market that will enable each country to draw on the other's investment capital, labor pool and special industrial talents. There were some signs, most notably new attacks in the Soviet press against Dubcek's programs and the resumption of Warsaw Pact maneuvers along Czechoslovakia's northern border...
...cowpokes began match-racing for payday stakes and, as one oldtimer put it, "if you couldn't whup the guy you beat, you didn't get your money." Before long, horsemen were organizing races at state and county fairs across the West. Whole herds of cattle were common stakes, and more than one ranch changed hands after a head-to-head race...
...under Charles de Gaulle. Faure was De Gaulle's chief troubleshooter in handling the colonial clashes with Morocco and Tunisia. He helped forge new French ties with Red China, fought stubbornly to protect the interests of French farmers in negotiating the full integration of agriculture into the Common Market. If he succeeds in reforming French education without another revolt, it might well be his most significant triumph...
...case, been long overdue for a dose of expansion. Charles de Gaulle's stubbornly conservative economic policies, aimed at strengthening the franc and avoiding inflation, slowed the country's real economic growth to a point (4.4% last year) that was unhealthy for both France and its Common Market trading partners. The output of French factories rose a mere 2.2% in 1967 and, as a consequence, one-fifth of the country's industrial capacity lay idle early this year. The resulting unemployment plainly aggravated the social unrest that welled into revolt during...
Seed of Discord. Traditionally, the company bargains separately at each of its 20 plants. But the unions this time insisted on a common expiration date for all Campbell contracts. Behind the demand is the burgeoning drive by A.F.L.C.I.O. Organizer Stephen Harris, to duplicate company-wide contracts that he won from the Union Carbide Corp. and the copper industry. His "traveling committee," representing the firm's unions, made its overriding aim to negotiate contracts for all Campbell plants at the same time. Meat Cutters Union Local President Clarence Clark claims that the old system enables the company to "play...